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There is no need to buy a GNU/Linux distro if you have a fast enough connection to download it. Download the ISO image's and burn to a CD. The whole idea behind GNU/Linux is that it's free.
You can run Linux on a 3 1/2 floppy so I don't see a problem with you running it on an external drive. If you can't boot from it though, and possibly even if you can boot from it, you'll have to set up your bootloader using (Lilo or Grub) to point to it using initrd, or you can build in support for the drive to the kernel this will involve compiling in the kernel module (device driver) for this into your kernel. To do this you'll need the kernel source for your distro.
You can run Linux on a 3 1/2 floppy so I don't see a problem with you running it on an external drive. If you can't boot from it though, and possibly even if you can boot from it, you'll have to set up your bootloader using (Lilo or Grub) to point to it using initrd, or you can build in support for the drive to the kernel this will involve compiling in the kernel module (device driver) for this into your kernel. To do this you'll need the kernel source for your distro.























