Re: Installation failed

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--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Installation failed
> To: "Go Linux" <golinux@yahoo.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 2:42 PM
> On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote:
> > --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb drive
> or
> >> nothing.
> >
> > Duh . . . How about installing on an external hard
> drive?
> 
> That would be nice, but that would be on USB also...
> 
> 

The problem is not with USB.  The problem is flash vs hard drive.  AFAIK you CAN install grub2 to a hard drive and boot from it.  I've done quite a bit of reading but haven't tried it yet because I have no pressing need.