Request for comments: Laptop improvements

[alan]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, David Timms wrote:

> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:02 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
>>> Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 08:31 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>>>>> 2. Able to boot or instigate boot from external usb / firewire hdd. 
>>>>> Reason is employer does not like employees screwing with work provided 
>>>>> notebooks. This would allow more home usage of linux (even when you are 
>>>>> not allowed to), whether it be a live distros or complete installs.
>>>> This functionality should be present in test1.  Having testing from
>>>> other people would be greatly appreciated!
>>> This is very machine-dependent. My current machine just can't boot from 
>>> USB
>>> or Firewire. Next one does...
>> 
>> Very much known -- that's why we warn you that it may or may not work
>> depending on your BIOS when you attempt to do it
> On the dark-side: could the installer (or something) else make a boot entry 
> to a PC's fat (ntfs?) boot.ini that allows boot of the external drive ?

I can't imagine why not.  There is a program to do this for cd-roms. (I 
would have to look on one of my old Linux Format discs to find it.  I 
don't remember the name.)

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