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

[Tony Alfrey]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Well, that's impressive.  I'm going to try that on a new box.
Thanks.

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