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Hy Henry, |
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if your system is able to boot from USB it is not problem to deploy |
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gentoo on external drive. |
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You can just install gentoo on that drive the same way as you will |
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install it on internal hdd. You will just install on /dev/sdb (or the |
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correct drive). Also the grub can be placed there. Just think of it as |
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a normal drive. Only difference is that you need usb, mass storage and |
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correct filesystem modules in kernel builtin or in initramfs. When |
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using external drive I would use better UUID when defining root in |
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fstab/grub, or better use LVM (I would use zfs, but thats pretty |
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different story). |
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Yes there are desktops without second hdd bay, even without another |
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sata connector, for example a lot of Dell SFF desktop computers. |
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Robert. |
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:39:47 -0400 |
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"Henry W. Peters" <hwpeters@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > HDD 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 |
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> > for daily use for about two years. It is at least five years back, |
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> > it was over USB 2.0 and worked quite well. I did some photo editing |
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> > and retouching and it was ok. |
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> > How big is your internal drive anyway? Isn't it possible to use |
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> > around 30GB for Gentoo system partition? Or do you just want to |
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> > keep original 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 |
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> > your machine is just too small, etc.) then I'd look at imaging the |
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> > drive that's currently installed, putting in a larger drive, |
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> > partitioning this larger drive to hold both Gentoo and what ever M$ |
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> > OS you might be using, and then just work to get both OS's working |
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> > but keep the current drive on the shelf as a backup. This way you |
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> > could always go back to what you have. |
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> > |
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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 |
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> > laptop. I have a USB3 external hard drive that I mostly use for |
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> > backup, but I have occasionally edited some audio (small audio |
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> > files using Audacity) directly on the external drive. Again, it's |
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> > not the OS drive, so temp files and such are most likely stored on |
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> > the internal drive, but I know that Audacity operates in the |
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> > directory in which the project is located, so it's still doing a |
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> > fair bit of I/O to that external drive. |
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> > |
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> > Hope this helps! |
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> > |
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> > ~David |
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> |
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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 |
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> much older computer) a while ago & had problems installing Grub, with |
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> Gentoo, as I was dual booting with windows (not to mention conflicts |
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> with xstart & my old integrated SIS graphics card)... so my thinking |
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> is to install Gentoo on a whole other HD... which seemed to work out |
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> on my old computer (or perhaps it was simpler to do for a Gentoo |
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> novice, like myself). |
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> |
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> & Peter, I'm with you... I have not seen a desktop computer that |
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> didn't have at least one expansion bay (not that I've seen that |
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> many)... but apparently this HP Pavillion 500-046 does not. & I |
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> really had to dig to 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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> |
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> I have done a little more research since my earlier post, & I see |
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> that LaCie (& possibly others) make/sell an external drive that has |
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> usb 2 & 3/firewire 400 & 800/eSata (& there are, it seems, some extra |
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> Sata slots on the mother board of this HP computer). |
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> My plan, in fact, after a installation of Gentoo... would be to |
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> shrink the 2 TB partition that is currently formatted in NTS... |
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> (Windows 8), use the other partition formatted in ext 4 (i.e., Linux) |
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> data storage. |
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> |
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> Henry |
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> (who's trying hard to get away from windows, again (been using |
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> various flavors of Linux for about five years) |
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