Say you want to use Linux in a dual-boot arrangement, but you don’t have any free space on your computer’s hard drive. One solution would be to use a “live” Linux distribution such as Knoppix, which can be run directly from CD. This is certainly viable for occasional use, but it has a number of serious drawbacks.
Boot Linux from a FireWire device
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yeah i could run linux on my 30GB iPod =)
(not ipodlinux.sf.net – as sec. HD) – need some mini-kernel on the HD to connect to ieee/ohci1394
“For testing purposes, I fitted the enclosure with a 13GB 3-1/2 inch IDE drive I had laying around — for real world usage, I would buy a larger capacity drive, which again are now very cheap (approximately 50 GBP per gig!)”
The price of a disk here in the UK is typically less than 0.50GBP/Gb
eg a 160Gb ATA-133 disk can be purchased for approx £60.00
SATA drives are a bit more expensive/Gb
Otherwise, this is a good explanation of the problems to be overcome in trying to get this to work. But, beware, there are some FireWire (and older USB1.1) devices that will not work with Linux onder any corcumstances. So, the moral here would be to boot a Live-CD on your H/W first. If you can do an ‘fdisk’ on your Firewire/USB device then you should be able to do the installation without too much problem.