Ubuntu on an external drive---how to?

[Derek Broughton]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>     I had the idea to boot from a USB memory stick and checked my bios.
> It has a thing called an odd name that help said included USB booting. I
> set that but no joy, a reboot with the USB memory left plugged in was a
> failure. I doubt that it will work.

Actually, if booting with a _non-bootable_ USB stick plugged in causes the
boot process to hang that means that booting from USB _is_ possible.  It
just means it didn't find a boot loader when it found the USB stick.  If
your system is either incapable of, or not configured for, booting from USB
then a USB stick is ignored at boot time.

Doubt all you want, but people _do_ boot from USB sticks: google "linux boot
pen drive"
-- 
derek