[Mageia-discuss] Dual-booting Mageia

[jpbfree]

Le 15/12/2012 16:38, Anne Wilson a écrit :
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> A young man who has steadfastly used Windows all his life is at last
> beginning to wonder if he should try Linux.  I'm thinking that the
> best thing for him would be to put Mageia onto a usb drive - I have a
> spare cradle and a drive that I could wipe for him.  I've no qualms
> about the actual install, until it comes to the bit where it asks
> where to put the boot record.  Is drive A first sector the best place
> in this setup?  What would happen if he tried to boot without the new
> drive attached?
>
> I've never done it quite like this before, but since he is a laptop
> and tablet user, a second internal drive isn't an option, and he won't
> want to split his drive, as he is an artist/photographer so stores
> large files.
>
> Anyone care to advise me?  I don't want to offer this until I'm sure I
> can do it in a way that won't cause both of us hassle.
>
> Thanks
>
> Anne
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Don't know if this will help, but i made a USB key (should be the same 
with a usb drive)
close to what was once mdk/v everywhere.

here are the steps:
1/from my laptop I started with a live CD (live usb stick should work also)
2/boot on the live cd/stick and install the distib on the
    USB stick/drive as you would do for a internal drive.
3/when asked if you want to remove drivers for unused hardware say no 
(keep them).
4/ intall the boot sector on this stick/drive.
5/that's all

I did that on a cheap 32GB USB stick and in addition at install time I 
partitioned the key
and copy part of my /home on it (thunderbird and some documents/photos).

I booted my home server, my desktop machine and my
old iron of AcerAspire ONE with that key without problems.
(They all have different drive controler and different video cards).

OTH

JPB

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