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Hi. I'm quite new to Linux, though in a previous existence I was a Unix user and did some routine administration on workstations - HP and Sun. I found the group recently and joined but have been lurking until now. I've been experimenting with Linux distros on my laptop. I have Mandrake 10.1 dual booting with lilo, but I would like to load another distro into some spare disc space for comparison. Is this possible/feasible/trivial? I've tried installing Suse 9.2. It happily found itself a suitable place in a partition on my external HD - fair enough. It then installed grub but failed to boot from it. Is there a problem with it being on the external HD? I was wondering if it was trying to load from the drive before it had been recognised. The drive is connected by a USB 2.0 port. I returned to using lilo to control the boot process and tried to add an entry for Suse 9.2. Not sure if I set up the mount point correctly - I must have a more thorough investigation tomorrow. Any hints or suggestions would be gratefully received. Martin -- Martinus Scriblerus scripsit -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html