external installation question

[aerospace1028 at hotmail.com]

Hello all,
it looks like my laptop is able to boot from an external harddrive.

Before I get too excited about jumping on this option, is there anything to look at from the external drive side of things that could throw a monkey-wrench in the works?  I recieved a drive as a gift over the holidays.  I haven't taken it out of the box yet.  It is USB3.0.  Is there anything that would make it inherrently unbootable?  Or will the partition, format and OS installation process set the boot capacity of the device?

My next step is to study the new install instructions for archlinux.  Hopefully I can start making some progress on getting back into linux.

Thank you :-)
 		 	   		  
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