sdrubble
November 2nd, 2008, 05:46 PM
Hi all,
As a Linux almost-noob I may be trying to accomplish too much at the same time but I'm willing to try - at the very least I suppose I'll learn a lot in the process.
However as I've been several years away from my previous Linux experience I'm afraid I might be taking incompatible approaches together. So if somebody would care to comment on what I'm planning to do I'd be most grateful.
I've got the following HW / SW -
1st laptop Dell Latitude 120L - Pentium-M 1.73 GHz, 2 Gb RAM, Windows XP, 80 Gb HD w/ multiple partitions (including some LVM ones made w/ System Rescue live CD)
2nd laptop Asus EEE PC 901 - Atom N270 1.6 Ghz, 2 Gb RAM, 4 + 16 Gb SSDs, currently w/ soon-to-be-removed Xandros OS
USB 160 Gb portable HD which I intend to format w/ multiple partitions including a bootable one
After firstly considering a dual-boot setup on the EEE PC (Win XP + Xubuntu) I thought it might be too troublesome to accomplish & manage within just 20 Gb of storage. Then I'm now considering making an Intrepid install to the USB HD that [should] work on BOTH laptops above.
So I'd like to know if this is doable with all the following in mind:
putting GRUB on USB HD only (and NOT on either of the laptops' MBRs) , so that I could boot Ubuntu from either laptop and ONLY when USB HD attached at power-on - possibly using UNetbootin from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
2 alternative kernels on USB HD GRUB - normal one when booting on the Dell Latitude and the one from http://www.array.org/ubuntu/setup-intrepid.html when booting on the EEE PC (to get full support for HW components on the EEE)
performing the Ubuntu install from the alternate CD (not sure if UNetbootin is compatible with this), in order to use some LVM partitions (what I believe can't be done with the standard CD)
Thnx a LOT in advance to anyone who might give me some guidance on this.
Cheers
sdrubble
As a Linux almost-noob I may be trying to accomplish too much at the same time but I'm willing to try - at the very least I suppose I'll learn a lot in the process.
However as I've been several years away from my previous Linux experience I'm afraid I might be taking incompatible approaches together. So if somebody would care to comment on what I'm planning to do I'd be most grateful.
I've got the following HW / SW -
1st laptop Dell Latitude 120L - Pentium-M 1.73 GHz, 2 Gb RAM, Windows XP, 80 Gb HD w/ multiple partitions (including some LVM ones made w/ System Rescue live CD)
2nd laptop Asus EEE PC 901 - Atom N270 1.6 Ghz, 2 Gb RAM, 4 + 16 Gb SSDs, currently w/ soon-to-be-removed Xandros OS
USB 160 Gb portable HD which I intend to format w/ multiple partitions including a bootable one
After firstly considering a dual-boot setup on the EEE PC (Win XP + Xubuntu) I thought it might be too troublesome to accomplish & manage within just 20 Gb of storage. Then I'm now considering making an Intrepid install to the USB HD that [should] work on BOTH laptops above.
So I'd like to know if this is doable with all the following in mind:
putting GRUB on USB HD only (and NOT on either of the laptops' MBRs) , so that I could boot Ubuntu from either laptop and ONLY when USB HD attached at power-on - possibly using UNetbootin from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
2 alternative kernels on USB HD GRUB - normal one when booting on the Dell Latitude and the one from http://www.array.org/ubuntu/setup-intrepid.html when booting on the EEE PC (to get full support for HW components on the EEE)
performing the Ubuntu install from the alternate CD (not sure if UNetbootin is compatible with this), in order to use some LVM partitions (what I believe can't be done with the standard CD)
Thnx a LOT in advance to anyone who might give me some guidance on this.
Cheers
sdrubble