Installing Kububtu on USB drive

[Preston Smith]

Hi AC, Mark and others who replied!

Happy New Year!

Thank you for your thoughtful suggestions.  I apologize for the late 
response but alligators were nipping at my vitals

The bios of my  Compaq V2414NR laptop bought in Dec 2005 does not have 
the ability to boot from a USB drive.  So what are my options with this 
additional info?

Thanks

Preston

ac said the following on 02/01/2007 12:46 PM:
> Mark Warner wrote:
>> Preston Smith wrote:
>>> I have XP SP 2 on my laptop and would like to install Kubuntu.  Can I
>>> install it on my USB drive?  Where should I install Grub or a similar
>>> boot loader?
>> Assuming a usb connected hard drive (as opposed to a thumb/flash drive),
>> the trick is to have the bios set to boot from the usb drive first.
>> During the install, install grub to the mbr of the usb drive, not the
>> main hard drive. Then, to boot to Linux, just make sure the usb drive is
>> plugged in and powered up before starting the machine.
>>
>> I believe this amount of control over the grub installation would
>> require using the Alternate CD instead of the Desktop (Live) CD.
>>
> 
> Using a live CD (Desktop) and choosing manual install, it is possible 
> to create and use a separate boot partition. I am not sure if this 
> means the mbr would be used on the usb drive though?