| Author | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Grok | Can a PC boot from an external USB drive? Is this a function of the motherboard BIOS? | October 28, 2004, 7:45 PM |
| crashtestdummy | Yes it's a function of the BIOS. you can do it with SLAX: http://slax.linux-live.org/doc_install.php#inst2flash Or knoppix: http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/ And BART p.e. says it can but it's not stable: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ | October 28, 2004, 8:03 PM |
| Myndfyr | At least on my laptop, I have booted from a USB floppy drive. | October 28, 2004, 8:59 PM |
| iago | I was able to install/boot Linux off a usb harddrive, but I was unable to install Windows to one. Maybe there's a way, but Windows XP wouldn't let me select that drive as an installation medium. | October 28, 2004, 9:15 PM |
| Myndfyr | [quote author=iago link=topic=9346.msg86447#msg86447 date=1098998117] I was able to install/boot Linux off a usb harddrive, but I was unable to install Windows to one. Maybe there's a way, but Windows XP wouldn't let me select that drive as an installation medium. [/quote] Were you pressing F5/F8/Whatever-that-key-is to specify additional RAID or other mass storage devices? Windows XP wouldn't let me install to my IDE device 5, because it was on an expansion card, until I installed that driver. | October 28, 2004, 11:45 PM |
| iago | I think it said "scsi or some other device" -- but no, I never tried that. But it found the drive fine, but I got "access denied" when installing to it -- is that the problem you had? | October 29, 2004, 2:52 AM |