ubuntu-us-nj Request for advice

[Joe Terranova]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Tan Chen <tantanchen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to reiterate some thing David said, "if your bios
> supports selecting an external
> usb drive as a boot device"

If you install like my link instructed, grub is written to your main
hard drive -- your main hard drive boots, and then loads ubuntu from
the external.

> This is very important, you should check this before you start. If
> not, I also suggest Wubi because it lets you try ubuntu without
> changing anything

Wubi's slower, and requires using space on the main hard drive for Ubuntu.