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From: ray <r...@zianet.com>
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Subject: Re: Buying a computer for Windows and Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:16:37 -0700
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:33:13 -0600, tom wrote:

> I recently purchased an HP computer and none of
> the HPs in the store take a second HD.  Also, booting
> from a USB port does not show up in the boot menu.
> I looked at the bios and could not figure out how to
> boot from a USB port.  The computer I bought is
> a a1730n.
> 
> I thought I could buy a computer where I could
> run Linux without repartitioning the HD, but I guess not.

Booting from USB should certainly be an option on any recent computer, I'd
look again - did you have a USB device (preferably bootable) installed at
the time? Another option might be to look at the 'supergrub' CD.