[Leaplist] Booting from a usb drive

[Bob Hicks]

Unfortunately, other commitments keep me from coming to the Installfest 
to see if the following is possible.

I would like to boot a linux distro from a usb drive. I would like to be 
able to use that drive for everything linux...saving files, etc. The 
reason I want to do this is that I have a laptop. One the last one I 
had, I tried to set up a dual boot with Windows and Linux. I succeeded 
in destroying the Windows OS, so I made it a total linux machine for the 
purpose of learning. Now, I have a new machine. It is necessary to keep 
the Windows operating system...I don't want to take a chance of losing 
that. My solution, if possible, would be to boot and operate from a usb 
drive. If it is possible, could someone tell me, step by step, how I 
should go about it. I would be using the Kubuntu distro, most likely the 
64 bit, if possible. Thank you for any help you can give.

Bob Hicks

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