Linux can most certainly be run from an external HD. Before I upgraded my internal HD, I was using Ubuntu on an external HD for several months. Ubuntu was able to detect my computer's hardware automatically and could change the drivers automatically when I plugged the external HD into another computer. I am quite sure Mint can do likewise. You can choose not to mount the internal HD and nothing in there will be touched. I still use Puppy Linux on a USB pendrive and bring that with me everywhere I go.
But 1 TB may be on the high side unless you are planning to install many distros. Mint will need about 20 GB only.
Alex
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From: Gabrielle <dawnyisrael13@yahoo.com>
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 29 May, 2010 2:57:55
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Linux on an external HD
Greetings,
I first want to say I have been enjoying reading and learning from all the posts here.
I have a question and please do not roll your eyes at me for asking this. I still have not been able to obtain a decent used computer for myself and am at the mercy of using my room mates. He told me I absolutely could NOT partition his hard drive and put some version of Linux on it. So, I have seen that the price of an iOmega external 1TB HD is on sale right now for around $80. Would I be able to plug in one of those to his computer and download say Mint since I am a newbie, and then only use it off of that external HD? Plus use it then on whatever computer I finally do obtain? This is so he will not know or complain. I am alone with his computer during the day, so I would have time to plug and play. I am not sure if these external HD's require downloading anything to the main computer you are plugged into or not. I do not want anything to show on his computer.
Anyway, I hope this was not an eye roller of a question.
Thank you
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