Boot from external USB drive?

[Mark Warner]

David Abrahams wrote:
>
> For testing Feisty, I'd like to install it on an external USB drive,
> at least at first.  Are there instructions out there describing how to
> set up to be able to boot that installation, preferably with a grub
> menu entry?

It's simple, *if* your machine's bios can be set to boot to usb-hdd
before hdd. Just install to the drive, and then tell the installer to
install grub to the mbr of the *external* drive (the one you installed
Feisty on), *not* hda. Dunno about Feisty, but the Dapper and Edgy Live
CDs didn't give you this capability with the grub installation -- the
Alternate CD was required.

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Mark Warner
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