Can I install SuSE on an external hard drive and boot to that OS?

Hi,
I'd like to figure out and maybe even keep up with what a friend is doing with linux on a pc.
Can I install SuSE 10.1 on an external Lacie hard drive and boot to that OS by holding down option during start-up?
Thanks,
Garrett

Hi,
I'm an OS X fan who was totally engrossed in the terminal a few years back but became side-tracked into structural and sculptural stuff instead of the computer.
The Mac mini forum mentioned putting OS X on external hard drives to supe up the mini so it made me wonder about other Operating Systems.
Now I'm mostly interested in being a little familiar with the SuSE OS because I heared the Chinese have adopted Linux; my impression is China and Europe are the cultural future and vanguard.
U.S. is the only place on Earth using inches, farenheit, gallons, and pounds, for example. I'm anxious to use software that will come from Europe in the next year or two and China in the next four or five. Most American corps, except Apple, seem to have peaked, to me.
I'm just curious as to what's out there. Anyplace not gone metric yet is SO yesterday. I'll feel way cool when I send my PC friend a screen shot of Linux on my Mac using the external Lacie hard drive instead of an internal partition.
Garrett

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