Is it possible to boot an OS like Linux or Solaris from an external hard-drive?
I just received my new external hard-drive from Dell, and I just partitioned it so that I could put an emergency backup operating system on it to retrieve files from my computer that I haven’t backed up yet.
Can an external hard-drive boot operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, or LynxOS RTOS?
Just curious…
By the way, where can I get a copy of the OpenDarwin OS?
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Installing Ubuntu on external or RAID hard disks
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation#Installing on external
Installing SuSE on External USB Drive
http://en.opensuse.org/Installing_SuSE_on_External_USB_Drive
LUg.
It doesn’t depend on the OS: it’s the BIOS in your PC that must be able to boot from USB. Enter the BIOS and look for this option in the BOOT section: the USB option must be listed before HDD, or the PC is going to boot from the internal disk anyway.