OH NO .... I have to use Vista at work

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

Tony Alfrey a ?crit :
> Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
>>
>> he he , You, yourself started to find a solution to your problems :) .
>> Install Linux over An external disk (USB disk/key ...) , set up the bios
>> to boot on it and there you go, without touching the laptop disk :) 
> 
> Why would this not be very slow, especially if the disk is a USB disk?
> It would seem to me that this is only practical for a rescue disk, and 
> that trying to run applications from a USB disk would be prohibitively 
> slow.  No??
> 

I installed Feisty over my USB disk too, cause I use it for rescuing
other people. But  I was very impressed by the speed of that system.
Using a usb2 disk install isn't that slow.

Considering the speed of USB2 is 480Mb/s ( from wikipedia), the speed is
equivalent to an ATA-5 IDE disk.

The solution I proposed is just to avoid any problem.