[Tfug] Booting External Harddrive

[Claude Rubinson]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:01:03PM -0400, Charles R. Kiss wrote:
> Say one is leaving town for Thanksgiving, and one doesn't want to take 
> one's laptop.
> 
> Is it possible, instead to take ones external harddrive (200GB) that 
> contains boot, swap, and operating system partitions?  Like a portable 
> operating system disk with personal data one can take on the road, say 
> to your parents house during the Thanksgiving holiday, plug the USB into 
> back, change the BIOS settings to boot the external harddrive, into the 
> installation menu, etc. 

Why not just take the portable drive and a live cd?

Claude