external hard drive -- linux

From: j-marvin (customer_at_service.boy)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:33:41 GMT

hi-

at walmart they have seagate external drives.

yast wont give me a proposal for partitioning
because (probably) i have basically one 55gb main windows
partition and a 7gb one i dont know the purpose of.

so i was thinking i could get a external drive at
walmart. then let yast erase it (because it will
probably be ntfs) and then install linux to external
drive. the reason i think this is yast identifies
the drive and allows me to select it with a check
box.

will i have problems with a dual boot system doing
it this way? my internal drive has windows and external
will have linux.

anyone have any experience or know about this?

i like this idea better than buying partition magic
because i get an extra drive out of the deal.

please let me know what you think,
jim

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