Just make sure grub gets dumped on the ext HD, rather than the internal one. Btw... You're halfway to an inexensive netbook... I would just snag a cheap flashdrive for installation now, and keep saving up.
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From: searcher1 <searcher125@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 1:32 AM
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Linux on an external HD
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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Sent: Sat, 29 May, 2010 2:57:55
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