booting off sd card/usb stick

I ordered the 160gb windows version with 6-cell battery.


I would like to know if i can boot off of sd card/usb so i dont damage my harddrive when i'm in a more bumpy mobile situation.

so...can you boot off of one of the sd cards?
i'm mostly sure i can boot off usb drive but correct me if i'm wrong.

if I can boot off sd card then i will when in a situation that i could damage the hard drive, and use the hard drive when there was less chance of damaging it.

Thank you now for any of your answers, hope i get a few sarcastic ones, as they are usually the most entertaining!

 

USB yes, SD no.

 

USB yes, SD actually YES as well - look at this:

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viewtopic.php?f=44&t=3105

 

... yes, but booting from USB-stick is problematic, unless you have a programme that automatically prepares the stick and makes it bootable. I tried for several days to make my usb-stick bootable. it was a failure, and I ended up buying an extrenal DVD-drive which works beutifulla. taken the time I wasted manipulating the USB-stick, I should have got the CD-player/burner right away

cheers

 

First post to clarify usb booting. I have recently acquired the AAO 120 GB hd 1GB mem WinXP and installed Fedora 10 rawhide from a LiveUSB in under 15 minutes. If you are running Fedora 8,9 or 10 you can use "livecd-iso-to-disk" to write the iso to a usb device and also give it a "persistent overlay" that saves your changes and allows you to install to hdd. There is a "liveusb-creator" available for Windows and you can read more at this link LiveUSB. I have been booting from usb sticks on two other laptops an Acer and a Sony and also from desktops that support usb boot.

I like the AAO and its portability, I recently removed the 512 memory and installed a 1GB block for a total of 1.5GB and currently dual booting Fedora 10 rawhide and WinXP.

 

Meh. nvm