Installing XP on external drive?

[Durrthock]

I'm pretty sure they sell usb thumb drives but you cant run off of them, I think I may have read something about this the other day.
On second thought that was about virtual systems. Running another operating system on a computer, Maybe you could just boot it off a thumb drive.
And im fairly sure you could get linux to boot off of an external drive.

[PartyLikeARockstar]

I'm pretty sure they sell usb thumb drives but you cant run off of them, I think I may have read something about this the other day.
On second thought that was about virtual systems. Running another operating system on a computer, Maybe you could just boot it off a thumb drive.
And im fairly sure you could get linux to boot off of an external drive.

for Windows:
http://www.ngine.de/article/id/8

for Linux:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

[Crazy Buddhist]

Re: booting all machines from one drive:

If you were running Win 2K it would be less of a problem. I've taken a HDD off one machine and stuck it in a completely different machine (processor family, mobo, everything) for win2K to reconfigure itself and find drivers on boot up and work.

Xp seems too much of a control freak for this to work.

CB