Possible to boot OS from portable harddrive?

[johnpc]

Hello

I was curious whether it is possible to partition a portable hard drive and load Linux onto it and then boot to the linux partition of my portable hard drive while leaving my macbook pro's harddrive exclusively OSX. If possible, how would I go about doing this?

Thanks

 

[MasterTick]

The easiest way I know of is to use UNetbootin, but it's Windows only. I don't know any OSX alternatives.

 

[johnpc]

I have a mac

 

[johnpc]

"UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD."

How could I do it WITH burning a CD?

 

[MasterTick]

"UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD."

How could I do it WITH burning a CD?

Oh that's easy, just open Disk Utility, hit CMD+B and select the image to burn.