T40 with Fedora on an external USB drive?

[sdownie]

I have a T40 with the standard Win XP installation on the standard internal hard drive. I'd like to set up a dual-boot arrangement that runs Fedora on an external USB drive. I don't want to mess with the original XP/internal drive at all. Is this possible? Does the T40 support booting from a USB drive? If so, and if I could successfully install Fedora on the external drive, how would I switch between the Win XP and Fedora systems?

Thanks!

SD

[runixd]

You can do this farely easy. To switch between them you could have a bootloader on either your original hdd mbr section, which won't affect partition table or, which would probably be better for you, set usb as first bootable device, this way you can boot in linux whenever your usb is plugged in on boot.

[ddutta]

its easier said than done. You need to install your own mkinitrd to ensure that the USB modules are loaded with some delays else it wont work.

I found mandrake 10.1 to work seamlessly without tweaking.