using only USB harddisks ?

[William Park]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:02:55PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, William Park wrote:
> 
> >Anyone using USB harddisk?  I'm interested whether one could skip IDE
> >and go USB for all harddisks.  I don't see any way to boot from USB on
> >my BIOS... perhaps, newer motherboard has that option.
> 
> Look for 'boot from removable drive'.

I remember seeing that on my motherboard.  So, okey for BIOS.

> If your BIOS is from 2001 or later 
> it should be able to. In theory it should work but it would be slow even 
> with USB 2.0 imho. Most current boards can boot and run with just ram and 
> a usb disk-on-key formatted with something bootable.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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