While the USB drive is connected, go into your BIOS and check you boot from
settings.
 
If your system is not that old, you may be able to boot from the USB.
 
The trick at least for mine, is that the USB needs to be connected first.
 
I looked for info about booting from usb on my system, but couldn't find
anything, even looking in the bios, as far as I could find out, it wasn't
capable.
 
It wasn't until a year later, that I had a usb drive connected, and I was
looking for something else in the bios, and I saw the option to boot from
usb.
 
DOH !!!!!!!!!!!!
 
There was nothing in the docs about it, so I had stopped looking.
 
 

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From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mark
Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:47 PM
To: plug
Subject: Ubuntu Live CD Question



We recently obtained a used Dell notebook for my wife.  The DVD drive was
toast, so I bought an external/USB DVD drive to use. Wanting to test it on
some Linux things, I tried booting from an Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD. After it
failed to boot from the CD (no surprise), booting instead into Windows, the
Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD was still in the drive. After a while, the CD did an
autorun and offered to install as an application under windows--with two
caveats: 1) hibernation was disabled, and 2) "disk performance will be
slightly reduced."

Questions:

1) Has anyone out there done this?

2) How well does it work?

3) Is disk performance under both Windows & Linux affected? How much?

4) When I'm through playing with it, does it uninstall cleanly?

Thanks for any help,

Mark Jarvis