installing on USB hard disk

[Jon Drukman]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I've done this ages ago, so pardon if this is no more applicable. Try
> setting on the kernel boot line : expert. 
> 
> I think this was what made it also probe usb drives.

that worked - it allowed me to install the OS onto the external USB 
drive.  however, i can't boot it.  when i boot my system i get the 
normal windows boot menu.

my bios doesn't recognize the usb disk at all so somehow i have to get a 
bootable cdrom with usb storage support that i can use to load linux 
from the external disk.  i tried following the instructions at


http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/

but it presumes you can actually get into a linux system to build the 
bootable cd, which i can't.

is there any way to load linux from windows, or does someone have a 
pre-made boot cd with usb storage support?

-jsd-