[today’s run: rest day]
I’m going to do a bit of traveling. Of course I will take my laptop (Windows XP) with me. I also wanted to have a linux machine available.
I spotted the hard drive of my prior laptop, now in one of those USB drive boxes, and decided I should install Linux on that.
Our servers at work use Scientific Linux 5.3, so I decided to go with that.
I found a webpage about making a bootable USB drive and got that working. It isn’t exactly a cookbook, but it helped me get the GRUB part.
The next problem is the network device. SL 5.3 is pretty old, I had to download a newer version of the e1000 Intel network driver from here.
Now I have the network working and I am doing a “yum update” to get everything caught up.
I think this will actually work ok when I get it all going. And since it is on the external USB drive it will not modify my internal hard drive.