<div dir="ltr">Thanks. I knew about wubi but had not considered it. I see that it is included as an option on the 8.04 CD. Installing now!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Lane Oden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lane.oden@gmail.com">lane.oden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Wayne Edgar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zerovertex@gmail.com" target="_blank">zerovertex@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr"><div>I have a Dell Latitude C160. It's an older laptop that does not have built-in support for booting to USB devices. I have an internal hard drive with Windows XP. I would like to load Ubuntu on the external HD for casual use but I have to have XP for daily work tasks. If I install it this way, (a) will GRUB see that USB drive and sucessfully boot to the drive without the BIOS support for booting to USB and (b) will I still be able to boot to the internal HD *without* the USB drive hooked up?</div> <div> </div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Seems like wubi would be your best bet here. <a href="http://www.wubi-installer.org/" target="_blank">http://www.wubi-installer.org/</a> <br><br>Loading GRUB on the USB disk won't help you boot if your BIOS still doesn't support booting from USB. Wubi will let you boot Ubuntu, independently of Windows using XP's bootloader and your local disk. And then you can do whatever you want with your external drive. Depending on file system, you could access the external drive from both environments. And you'd be able to operate untethered if you wanted to. <br> <br>Lane <br></div></div><br></div> <br>--<br> Ubuntu-us-al mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-al@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-al@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-al" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-al</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Wayne Edgar<br><br><a href="http://zerovertex.googlepages.com">http://zerovertex.googlepages.com</a><br><br>Download vCard @ <a href="http://zerovertex.googlepages.com/wayne.vcf">http://zerovertex.googlepages.com/wayne.vcf</a><br> </div>