Booting from USB 2.0 HELP!!!

very long story short, I want to boot from a USB 2.0 thumb drive/flash drive/portable USB Drive/whatever you wanna call it... I know how to on my home PC, but I can't figure out how to on my MacBook Pro(Intel). Is it even possible, and how can I set it up to boot from USB?

I expect it is possible to install a dual boot Mac/Linux system on the Mac/USB, but I doubt very much that the same Linux OS on the USB would then boot a Windows PC. You would use GRUB or some such for the dual boot, not System preferences in the Mac.
You would really need to ask these of type questions on the Linux forum.
You could do what you want using Parallels or VMWare fusion, and installing Linux on the Virtual Machine which can be on the USB. Even then you are actually booted from the Mac OS and running Linux under virtualisation.
Bootcamp is a dual boot system but only supports XP at present.

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