Simple Question

[fred smith]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 04:33:25PM +0200, Antonio M wrote:
> 2011/4/12 Stephen P Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>:
> > 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.

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