[TriLUG] booting an external disk with grub 0.97

[Lance A. Brown via TriLUG]

On 2015-04-21 12:54 pm, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
> that's the problem here. I'm teaching someone python. He only has the
> windows laptop he got for xmas. He and his parents are not the
> fire-breathing GNU and hardware freaks that we are and quite
> reasonably don't want to void the warrantee.
> 
> There is no need to either. All I need to do is run Linux off an 
> external disk.
> This should be easy, right?

Call me nuts, but I'm running Python just fine using Portable Python 
2.7.6.1 on my Windows 8.1 Lenovo Carbon X1.  Even comes with PyCharm and 
most useful python modules preinstalled.  Is there a specific reason to 
run linux?

http://portablepython.com/

--[Lance]