Can I install ARCH on a USB drive ??

Hi
I want to install and use ARCH on my PC on a 500GB drive I have that is connected to a USB 2.0 port
Can it be done?
Can it be used as an OS ?
Also, can I make partitions on that drive and make ARCH use like 40GB only of it ?
Thank you!

kludge wrote:
R00KIE wrote:If using USB2 and a fast drive (ex. a hd in a box) then no speed issues, if running from a flash drive then booting is ok but when using if you need to write something to disk then the system will slowdown. Tried it myself.
i've booted repeatedly off a usb1.1 external with a 3200 rpm drive with only occasional noticeable lags.
My experience with a takeMS 8G flash drive is like I said, boots fast enough but then try to open firefox and it crawls to halt even with more than enough ram to spare, no swap partition or file.
I've also tried with a notebook disk on an external box and there isn't much difference from running with the disk plugged inside the pc.

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