Re: Boot from external USB drive?

Hello, Mario!
You wrote on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:33:03 +0100:

MV> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:14 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
??>> Are there instructions out there

MV> http://www.google.com/search?q=boot+usb+ubuntu

It will work if you can set your BIOS to boot from a USB disc. I
don't think I can, more's the pity :-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not



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