Request for comments: Laptop improvements

[David Timms]

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 ?

DaveT.