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.
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