[Hampshire] Install Ubuntu from USB HDD

2009-06-04 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all I've followed [1] to the letter but not able to boot any of my machines from a portable 80gb USB HDD. Can anyone see where I might have gone wrong please? One area where I'm concerned is presumably the BIOS has to be set to boot from USB - but the only USB options I'm getting on

Re: [Hampshire] Install Ubuntu from USB HDD

2009-06-04 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/6/4 Paul Stimpson p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk: Hi, Does your machine have an F-key that produces a boot menu? I think it's F12 on my Dell and F9 on our works HPs. I sometimes find devices show up in the boot menu that aren't candidates for autobooting. There is also an option in the