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Old 03-26-2008
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Originally Posted by bsandeep_80 View Post
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Thanks for the reply , but i could not get what you said as i new to this. answering your question this is a 320 GB External USB hard disk that i got today.
If your BIOS support "boot from USB device" then you should be able to make it boot from your external HD aswell.

Just install your Linux onto the USB drive, there are several explanations on howto do it for a veriaty of Linux Distributions:
Scientific Linux
Pendrive Linux
Ubuntu linux
SuSE Linux

Just pic your desired Linux variant, I would suggest Ubuntu as it seems more "first time user" friendly at the moment.
Altho Pendrive Linux is designed to reside on a USB pen.