zedzeronone
Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:43:37 pm
Hello forum how is everyone ? My mission is to learn how to install Zorin OS 6 Ultimate on an external hard drive & boot directly from this external hard drive. I have had success in the past doing similar dual boots with different OS's and several hard drives. I can manage dual booting two OS's on two internal hard drives using some of the open source software available on the net. I even understand the concept of "persistence" installations on external media. I am ,however, hitting a road block when trying to understand installing and booting from an external hard drive on the computer i am currently tweaking. Here is my system layout::::::::::::::Gateway laptop NV53A > processor = AMD phenom II X3 N830 > Graphics = ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 > RAM = 4 GB DDR3 >500 GB hard drive. The EXTERNAL hard drive i wish to install Zorin on is a 500 GB Western Digital My Passport Essential Portable usb 3.0 + 2.0. I thoroughly searched the forum for days and only found one or two instances of someone doing something similar. By the way, i am running Windows 7 Home Premium on this computers INTERNAL HDD. Thanks for any help in advance. This is a project for my mother and brother to get them interested in Linux distros as a viable alternative. I think the Zorin team has much promise, as i have used Linux mint, Ubuntu & Fedora. I think this is a great thing for users who may have never used a Linux box. I was quite impressed when using the Live Disk I created. I actually preferred it to Windows 7 since it looks just as nice and seems very nimble, while still catering to multimedia aspects of computing. I may even get my grandmother involved in using this OS. Great job guys/gals. By the way sorry for Mitt Romney...lol...what an embarrassment.
