Guest Ummi Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Hi, Am trying my hand at installing mandriva on an external hard drive that I have spare So far it seems to work, but I cant get my head around its ongoing use. Because my bios does not allow me to boot to a usb device, I have booted from the live cd. In dolphin I see the external hd and its two partitions plus also the hard drives ubuntu and vista partitions. Am I correct in assuming that I am able to download any software to the external drive? Also if i configure the settings, browser, email, desktop, will they be lost at the end of the session when I remove the cd. To my mind the external hd is to be treated as a data drive, cos even though the os is installed it is not functional due to the bios. Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Maybe you could use a boot floppy? Do you have a floppy drive? Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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