On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 02:08 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I'm in search of advice on hwo to realise my wishes. > > I would like to setup a 40 GB external usb hard drive so that if plugged > in normally, a FAT32 partion can been seen in any OS, which would have > my multimedia and data. > > But I would also like that if I'm in a pinch, I can connect the drive > preboot, and with the BIOS's permission, boot to the ext. drive, and > have a knoppix install bootup, autodetect the hardware as necessary, and > allow me to access my data. > > I'd also like to keep the a home dir on the knoppix install synced with > my currect home dir in FC4. Possibly even have the KDE's look the same etc. Should be possible if you just treat the USB drive as a regular disk, i.e. make partitions on it, one a bootable Linux partition for Knoppix and a FAT32 partition for data sharing. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
