How to Install Linux on external hard drives. Create a portable, USB bootable Linux system to carry your personalized environment wherever you go.
Fully Install Ubuntu from USB to a hard drive or a USB flash drive using the live media. Believe it or not, creating a completely Portable Ubuntu Installation on USB is a relatively simple process. As a matter of fact, it is almost as simple as a regular Ubuntu internal hard drive installation.
Fully Install SUSE on USB; The following tutorial covers the process of installing SUSE Linux on to a USB Drive using the OpenSUSE Live media. The process is made possible due to a custom Portable SUSE script created by James Rhodes. The user basically boots from the Live OpenSUSE media and performs the installation via the included YaST2 Install script to install SUSE to a USB drive. Then the user reboots from the Portable SUSE installation and launches the custom script to convert some files in the running system for portable compatibility.
WUBI on USB? In the following tutorial, I show you how we moved a WUBI Ubuntu install to a USB Flash Drive. This is a follow up of our previous move WUBI to External Hard Drive tutorial as it appears WUBI currently utilizes a different set of features and GRUB2 has replaced GRUB, making the previous tutorial obsolete.