Many thanks for your encouraging words. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate http://www.FoundationForChemistry.com -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of fred smith Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:08 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Simple Question On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 04:33:25PM +0200, Antonio M wrote: > 2011/4/12 Stephen P Molnar <s.molnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Two more questions: > > > > 1. How is the MBR affected/changed? I ask because I want to do this first > > on the laptop that I use for consulting and I wouldn't want to mess it up. > > 2. Is the Fedora HD portable, that is can I run Eudora on another computer? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > 1) no MBR is affected if you tell anaconda to install grub on the external disk > 2) I think that you can run on different computers - my experience > says yes, no 100% guarantee ;-) I've done it, as recently as with F13 I think it was. I was able to boot and use it on several different computers, but not all. It isn't clear to me that those where it didn't work failed because of something inherent (such as the installed system expecting the identical hardware to that on which the installation was done) or just because some systems refused to boot from usb. and yes, you can tell anaconda where, exactly, to install the filesytstem(s) and the MBR. I found the exact details to be somewhat obscure, so I was very leery, but managed to do it without trashing the built-in filesystems. The first time I did it, I opened up the box where installing onto USB and unplugged the HDs just for safety's sake. One thing I didn't much care for is that if Anaconda found a swap partition on the built-in HD, it would configure that as swap in the USB-installed system (even though you were careful to make sure none of the choices you made during partitioning or installation told it to use anything it found on the built-in HD), in addition to any swap you may also have created on the USB device itself. Minor irritant, easily fixed by hacking at /etc/fstab after completing the installation. then there's also creating a USB with a copy of the live-cd, which is a different beast altogether--that's identical to running from the live CD itself. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
