Linux on an external hard drive?

Linux on External Hard Drive

You should check the new Mandrake Linux offering that features a special version of Mandrake 10 installed on a LaCie Porsche design hard drive.

I just go the email today. See below.

FLASH: Introducing GlobeTrotter!

It's fast, it's light, it's slick and it's a complete Linux
system on one mobile hard drive...

You may already have a mobile phone, a laptop, a PDA, a calculator, a
tablet PC and a portable paper shredder, but there's one thing you've
been missing, and that's a light, inexpensive, yet powerful mobile
Linux system. Mandrakesoft's new GlobeTrotter, based on the LaCie
Mobile Hard Drive designed by FA Porsche, is a USB mobile hard drive
loaded with a specially tuned version of your favorite Linux
distribution, and it's the missing piece in today's range of mobile
systems.

GlobeTrotter gives you a complete Mandrakelinux system and 30 GB of
user data on one beautifully designed and fast LaCie hard drive. Using
it is child's play : plug it in whatever computer you have at hand,
and turn it on. All your hardware is detected and configured
automatically - just sit back for a minute, and get ready to
experience GlobeTrotter. It has all you've learnt to love in a
Mandrakelinux system : ease of use, stability, speed, fun, and the
power you need to get real work done.

If you wish to learn more about GlobeTrotter,
please visit:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/globetrotter

Purchase your Globetrotter now for only $219 USD / 199 Euros at:
http://www.mandrakestore.com

Mandrakesoft Online Team.

You have to make sure that your computer can boot from usb devices first, or that may not work. Also, be forwarned that if you're on a USB1 connection, it may be painfully slow...