[vox-tech] USB/Firewire HDDs with laptop

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I have a couple of external usb drives and they seem to work just fine 
mounting them from /dev/sda.  ( so it looks like a scsi drive to the 
kernel )  I am running Debian/testing or unstable.

Good luck
Mark

ronald at myvirtualemail.biz wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Has anybody had experience with installing and using Linux on an external
>drive (USB/Firewire) for a laptop.
>
>I'm not ready to trash an existing HDD running M/S on newest laptop, and
>an external drive is the cheapest solution.
>
>I'm looking at installing CentOS (http://www.caosity.org/) a RHEL 3 free
>port, necessary as I'm wanting to trial Oracle 10g. Unfortunately, only
>the M/S laptop has enough ram (1GB) for it to work.
>
>Any feedback or experiences would be most appreciated.
>
>Regards
>
>Ronald Bradford
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