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[ranger_cole]

Hello. I am getting my feet wet with Linux. I have been using Ubuntu 8.04 on an external HD for about 3 months. I just last night installed Vixta distro on a different external HD. I do like how pretty much everything worked after installing Ubuntu. I did install drivers for my Nvida card. I started after trying out Vista and being disappointed. I am interested in trying out various distros via live cd or virtual machine. I am getting ready to tackle dual booting 2 different linux distros from an external HD. Any links to this or how to guides?

[jayd512]

Welcome to LinuxForums!

You want LiveCD's? Here ya go: LiveCD List. And as far as the dual boot, it would seem that you're PC already boots from USB, so you shouldn't have any real issues here. I would get a copy of Gparted to use to make your partition on your drive to make room for the second distro. Linux will see the other installation and pretty much take care of the dual set-up for you. If you run into any problems though, don't hesitate to post!

Again, welcome! See you on the boards!

[ranger_cole]

Thanks for the link. Can I pick a couple of distros to add to any of the other external HDs and then boot with the CD and install process should take care of the dual booting part from external HD? I am guessing this 2nd distro will then be added to the grub for choosing when the the boot up starts.

[jayd512]

For the most part, I personally like a LiveCD for testing purposes. It gives the opportunity to boot up a functional OS, and find out if there will be any out-of-the-box hardware and driver issues. But, yes... Most of those live distros do have a pretty simple install feature that will usually be fairly easy to follow. If and when you find one you want to install, you can either have the installer add it to your GRUB configuration, or manually add it yourself afterwards.