[Tfug] Booting External Harddrive

[chaz tompkins]

your mileage may vary but if your hypothetical parents have an older
computer it may not be happy booting from usb.  i have lost much
hair trying to do the same.

best of luck

On 10/27/06, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:01:03PM -0400, Charles R. Kiss wrote:
> > Say one is leaving town for Thanksgiving, and one doesn't want to take
> > one's laptop.
> >
> > Is it possible, instead to take ones external harddrive (200GB) that
> > contains boot, swap, and operating system partitions?  Like a portable
> > operating system disk with personal data one can take on the road, say
> > to your parents house during the Thanksgiving holiday, plug the USB into
> > back, change the BIOS settings to boot the external harddrive, into the
> > installation menu, etc.
>
> Why not just take the portable drive and a live cd?
>
> Claude
>
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