Booting off USB drive

[rrmalloy at comcast.net (Richard R. Malloy)]

Derek Atkins wrote:

>Have you considered VMware?
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>-derek
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>Samuel Donham <sam at machine15.com> writes:
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I've used VMware at work, it's good stuff for what you describe the need 
to be.
 The free alternative might be to use Xen, but the setup time may be too 
great. [ie haven't  done it :) ]
 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/  -- claims to be able 
to run any
"reasonable" linux distro in a VM.

>>Has anyone tried booting a whole distro off an external USB hard drive?
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>>I have Fedora 3 installed on my laptop's (IBM t42) internal hard drive.
>>I need to also boot into Redhat ES 3 so I can develop on that as well.
>>Unless someone knows of a better way to access both distros, I thought I
>>would just install ES 3 on an external USB hard drive and boot from that
>>when I need to.  
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>>Thoughts?  Advice?  Has anyone tried something like this before?  I
>>noticed some references on the net, but they are spotty at best.
>>Thanks!
>>-sam
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