i was thinking could i use an external harddrive hooked up to my Raspberry pi and have Pimame/ mame4all look for roms in that Harddrive? because i downloaded a 42gb MAME rom set and i really want to have all the games available
@seagull - yes, you can run roms from a memory stick.
@Conno123009 - it's mostly the same, but with formats like ntfs you have to install drivers. I kept my thumbdrive formatted as ntfs so that I can still plug it into my windows machine to transfer bulk files faster than ftp. I had to use the fstab method because I was getting chown errors and the only tutorials I could find said to use fstab :) . Also, I like to use the UUID since I am constantly changing what is plugged into my usb, some things load sooner than others and may take that sda1 slot. Once I settle on a final setup for my arcade, I'll probably re-format to a unix based format though, I hear it gives you much better read/write speeds.
http://www.bestsellingreviews.com/Computer/External-Hard-Drive/ Here is my situation, I am new to forum and Linux side of things , so I have to know how to setup an external hard drive and make it so the pictures will go to the external hard drive rather than the original area? So what do I have to do?