On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Patrick C wrote: > I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with installing > Linux-based OSs to USB. A friend of mine is attempting it, but > understandably struggling (he's not very much a Linux guy, at least not yet) > with Ubuntu. As far as I can tell, there's no real standard way of doing it > (it varies across distribution, and most distributions don't have some > standard for installing to external HDD/USB). I'm in the middle of setting > one up right now, but it just duplicates the functionality of a (remastered) > (X)ubuntu LiveCD, and I'd prefer something persistent. If I'm not satisfied > with this, I'll just try to rig something up on my own, but I was wondering > if you folks had any advice/wisdom for me, first. I've done it and it works great. Just set your installation destination to the USB media, and that's it! It's just like a disk... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss