Ubuntu on an external drive---how to?

[B.J. McClure]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 16:17 +0200, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Am Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:03:00 -0300
> schrieb Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> 
> > > Can you run ubuntu on a flash drive?
> > 
> > You can run ubuntu on a USB rotary drive (I have) so I don't see any
> > reason why not.  I don't know enough about the hardware - perhaps
> > they don't have an MBR, in which case you'd have to boot off the
> > partition superblock.
> 
> IIRC booting off USB devices is a feature to be supported (and possibly
> enabled) in the machines BIOS configuration. If your machine doesn't
> support this and/or it is not enabled in BIOS and/or you're not allowed
> to set this up, you're likely to be doomed. Checking your devices BIOS
> configuration seems a good idea after all.

I think the OP said in an earlier post he set the boot priority in bios
to boot the external usb drive first.  Doesn't that resolve that
possibility?

B.J.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kristian
> 
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