Using External USB Drive for Linux Installation

[Mark Rousseau]

Any suggestions on External drives to get/avoid?  Is speed a major 
issue.   This will be for a development/learning  workstation.


Travis Roy wrote:

> Of course...
>
> As long as the bios supports booting from a USB device, as many now 
> do, you shouldn't have any issues.
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>    I currently have a Dell inspiron 5150 running XP with a nearly 
>> full drive.  I also want to run linux( fedora ) on this laptop but 
>> don't want to hassle with having to swap hard drives from the built 
>> in bay.  Is it possible/feasable to run Linux from one of those 
>> external usb drive's?
>> thanks,
>>    Mark
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