Bill Glidden wrote:
> I have an external USB drive. I want to install linux on this drive,
> then use this drive to boot up new machines and copy the contents of the
> disk to the new machines so that I don’t have to go through the install
> process on the new machines. Before I invest in a lot of frustration and
> time trying to get this to work I thought I’d ask if its even possible.
> The machines I’m using can boot from a USB cd-rom drive so I’m guessing
> that booting from a USB hard drive isn’t much different. But what do I
> know? I’m so hopped up on cold medicine right now that I probably won’t
> even remember sending this email in a couple of hours J
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> Bill
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My $0.02 would say boot off a live CD, mount whatever, copy whatever to
the USB. I have run into alot of machines that have problems booting
USB, CD not so much.
-Chris
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