Running Mandrake 9.2 from USB external drive

[mfisher1967]

I have an Abit IC-7 Max3 motherboard with four WD Raptors in Raid 0. I would like to run Mandrake using an external drive via USB. I am thinking that this will allow me to use Linux without having to put any Linux data on my Raptor drives. I realize that I will have to change the first boot device in BIOS each time that I switch between booting on the internal and external drives. Will this work? Thanks for your help.

 

[fiji]

it should work fine, but you could even set up the external usb drive

so that it had a boot loader for linux and windows and wouldnt have to switch in your bios every time you wanted to switch