Cool. I tried to do it to my iPod earlier, but my iPod has a weird block size (2048 as opposed to 512). Not a huge deal, but it causes all libparted-based installers, including that of Ubuntu & co. to choke.

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Patrick C <patrick.pxc.c@gmail.com> 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
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