External Hard drive with Ubuntu

[Matthew Kuiken]

Ian Kabeary wrote:
> Hi there,
> I still haven't gotten a response for this question.
> I installed Ubuntu 5.1 onto a usb hard drive. Is there a way to boot from
> it?
> I do not have Ubuntu on my computer's internal drive, but wanted to 
> try it.
> My motherboard does support usb booting. The thing is though, Grub cant
> mount
> the drive or something like that. Any thoughts?
This:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80811
might give you some pointers on how to put it together.

This:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/boot-from-usb
says it was implemented for 6.06.  It might be easier to use Dapper...

HTH,
-Matt