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yes, as long as your system bios has been told to look at external drives for boot up.
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How do you boot Ubuntu 8.10 on a Mac with a flash drive?
When you choose the installation partition to install on, choose your flash drive then on startup, hold the option key down, it should show you your flash drive partition to boot up with.
Can you put songs on a thumb drive?
Yes, any data that can be stored on a hard drive can also be stored on a flash disk. A flash disk can even be configured with a boot sector and you can "boot" your computer from the flash disk.
How do you install winddows sp to a flash drive?
put your flash drive in the computer and boot the windows CD when the setup come and asks about partitioning use the directory of your flash drive
Can you install an operating system on a USB Flash drive?
There is no reason you cannot load an operating system on a flash drive. However, getting the computer to recognize the flash drive and boot from it could be an issue.
What is insert boot media device?
The computer wishes to boot a program from a portible device, E.G. Flash drive, CD/DVD etc.
Can you boot off of hard drive?
I do mean an external hard drive.
How can you get ubuntu to install from a flash drive?
Get unetbootin from ubuntu's website. Select the ISO from your hard drive then reboot and boot from USB! Voila!
How do you run an operating system solely from a usb flash drive?
Please see the related link below for an example of running ubuntu Linux from a usb flash drive. Linux is installed on the usb drive allowing you to boot directly from it.
Why would you change the first boot device to optical drive?
if your first boot device is an optical drive, this allows you to boot from a recovery disk or live CD in case of hard drive failure or corruption. This can be useful for troubleshooting computer problems.
How do you remove backtrack 5?
to remove backtrack 5 you must get the windows ISO then put it on a flash drive and boot of that
Can you boot a Windows setup program from a USB Flash drive?
You could boot it, but it would never get beyond the initial stages. The setup program looks for the CD after it starts so it can read the rest of the files. Since it does not know how to read a USB Flash drive, it will not find the files it is looking for and will fail.
If you don't have a high speed internet connection or CD burner what is another way to get Linux?
Boot it from a usb flash drive
