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Subject: Easy Install and Boot from USB Hard Drive?

From: rab <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:40:47 -0400

Reply-to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

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I've asked similar questions before. I've been directed to using mkinitrd but it's kind of complicated. Does anyone know of a Linux distribution that would be easy to install to and boot from a USB hard drive? I thought the computer dept. at my old company was bad but the computer dept. people at the new job are just plain Nazi's and stupid besides. (One person told me she thought that Linux was not secure and was virus prone.) I would prefer to dual boot the machine but if I can't I would like to boot and run from an external USB drive. The new machine supports booting from a USB drive - I checked the BIOS setup. I don't want to install anything on the computer's hard drive although if I had to boot initially from a floppy I could live with that. Surely someone has a simple solution.

Rick B.