Create a bootable partition on a USB disk

[froller at tnclimited.com]

On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:05:02 -0500, Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>
wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Actually... could you not just boot with an installCD on whatever system
> you want, choose the install location as the USB drive's partition, then
> also choose install GRUB onto that partition? My thinking is that this
> method would leave any existing installs on the PC alone, and produce a
> regular desktop install with the grub bootloader on the USB drive.
> 
> Or is this idea completely wrong?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrew
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This is what I was referring to in the second part.  Did this option 
with a 4Gb flash drive on my aspire one to check out a variety distros.  
Albeit, I used a thumb drive instead of cd.  The OP should have no 
trouble in either case.  Need to do the research for persistance in the 
first option though.

Fred