[plug] Bootable USB hard drive

[Kev]

I need help.  I need to know how I get a bootable system installed onto
a USB hard drive?  Google generally has returned me info that if I could
understand, I wouldn't need the help in the first place.

All my machines' BIOSs will boot from a range of USB devices (or so they
say), includung USB hard drive, but none of the OSs I have will see any
USB devices after booting from their respective CDs.  Hence I can't
install the OS onto the USB device.  Any clues would be greatly
appreciated.  My ultimate goal is to have a fully functioning USB borne
OS which I can boot from almost anybody's system.  To make it worse, I
wanted it to be my favourite distro.

Please play gently - I'm NOT overly technically minded.

Tia
Kev
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