Well, its been a few days of fun, but I have given up on trying to download a torrent of Gutsy Gibbon, and ordered it online (free of charge from www.ubuntu.com) which will take some time to get. So in the meantime I mucked around with a few bits and pieces on 6.1, which never appeared to actually make much sense, so I fronted up to the local Dick Smiths store, and brought a copy of Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" for $9.98 (a two DVD setup, covering both the 32bit and AMD64 bit versions).
Installing 6.1 on a USB based hard drive appeared problematic, as GRUB was installed onto the comptuers hard drive meaning that if I tried to boot without the USB Drive attached, there would be an error.
I tried installing it onto HD1, but this just stopped it working any way.
In hunting on the internet, I found this set of instructions to install on a portable drive, which worked perfectly.
1) get your Live CD
2) remove the laptop harddrive
3) plug in USB drive
4) set boot order USB>DVDROM>HARD DRIVE
5) start up Ubuntu
6) once the O/S is fully operational, select SYSTEM/PREFERENCES/REMOVABLE DRIVES AND MEDIA PREFERENCES
Deselect the three preselected items (mount removable drives when hot plugged, mount removable drives when inserted, browse removable media when inserted)
7) Click on the install item to run the installation software
8) Select all of the normal options, do not worry that the installer is placing GRUB on HD0 as this will be the USB Drive.
9) Once installation is complete, reboot with the drive still attached.
10) stop the computer and then reinstall the main hard drive.
a bit of mucking around, but I have ended up with a portable operating system.
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