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On 8/28/2013 3:46 PM, czernitko wrote: |
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> Hi, it seems improbable that your desktop PC would have only one HDD |
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> slot. Could you post your exact model number please? :) |
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> To give you some hope, I have had Linux installed on external hdd for |
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> daily use for about two years. It is at least five years back, it was |
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> over USB 2.0 and worked quite well. I did some photo editing and |
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> retouching and it was ok. |
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> How big is your internal drive anyway? Isn't it possible to use around |
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> 30GB for Gentoo system partition? Or do you just want to keep original |
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> hdd intact? |
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> Regards, |
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> Peter |
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> Hi, |
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> If you really need a new drive (i.e. - the one that came with your |
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> machine is just too small, etc.) then I'd look at imaging the drive |
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> that's currently installed, putting in a larger drive, partitioning |
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> this larger drive to hold both Gentoo and what ever M$ OS you might be |
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> using, and then just work to get both OS's working but keep the |
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> current drive on the shelf as a backup. This way you could always go |
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> back to what you have. |
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> Just an idea. |
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> Good luck, |
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> Mark |
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> To the point of the original poster: I currently use a Lenovo W520 laptop. |
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> I have a USB3 external hard drive that I mostly use for backup, but I have |
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> occasionally edited some audio (small audio files using Audacity) directly |
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> on the external drive. Again, it's not the OS drive, so temp files and such |
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> are most likely stored on the internal drive, but I know that Audacity |
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> operates in the directory in which the project is located, so it's still |
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> doing a fair bit of I/O to that external drive. |
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> Hope this helps! |
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> ~David |
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Thanks all for helpful suggestions! |
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First off, capacity of current internal drive is not really an issue |
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with me... it is 2 TB... I tried installing Gentoo on another (very much |
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older computer) a while ago & had problems installing Grub, with Gentoo, |
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as I was dual booting with windows (not to mention conflicts with xstart |
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& my old integrated SIS graphics card)... so my thinking is to install |
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Gentoo on a whole other HD... which seemed to work out on my old |
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computer (or perhaps it was simpler to do for a Gentoo novice, like myself). |
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& Peter, I'm with you... I have not seen a desktop computer that didn't |
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have at least one expansion bay (not that I've seen that many)... but |
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apparently this HP Pavillion 500-046 does not. & I really had to dig to |
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find out (the hard way). |
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Good to hear that some have had some measure of success with external |
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drives & Gentoo, rather sounds like I'll just have to try it... |
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I have done a little more research since my earlier post, & I see that |
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LaCie (& possibly others) make/sell an external drive that has usb 2 & |
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3/firewire 400 & 800/eSata (& there are, it seems, some extra Sata slots |
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on the mother board of this HP computer). |
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My plan, in fact, after a installation of Gentoo... would be to shrink |
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the 2 TB partition that is currently formatted in NTS... (Windows 8), |
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use the other partition formatted in ext 4 (i.e., Linux) data storage. |
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Henry |
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(who's trying hard to get away from windows, again (been using various |
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flavors of Linux for about five years) |
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