

Here are some things I was thinking about but wasn't able to find enough information to actually understand if they are feasible, or how to go about doing them.

In other words, just mounting some directories from the external drive wont work because I at least need some basic programs to run normally. It doesn't have to be this way exactly, I just want the effect of offloading some of my installed libraries and programs onto the portable hard drive.

I want to be able to install some packages to that external hard drive, so that when the hard drive is not plugged in the netbook still functions, just with out some functionality. I have a netbook with a tiny hard drive, and an external drive to go with it.
