QuoteThe manual that comes with it shows how to install WinXP from an USB drive. If one can install eCS using an USB drive, it should be able to install eCS onto it.
I don't think installing eCS this way will be as easy as installing Windows. See, you cannot write the *raw* contents of a CD (i.e. a boot CD used to install an operating system) to an USB stick because CDs have special filesystems. As far as I know, creating an USB stick with a Windows Installer involves creating a FAT or NTFS partition at the stick, making it bootable and then copying all the files from a Windows CD to the stick. What exactly does your manual say about that?
As I said, it should be possible to install it that way but it's not very straight forward and it may be tricky.
A method - however - which will almost certainly work (as the OS X installing article pointed out) is to use an external USB CD/DVD drive, changing your boot sequence so "USB" is at the top and then simply booting your eCS CD. That should be pretty easy. I think for that purpose I'm going to buy a cheap CD/DVD drive mobile rack and attach one of my old drives to it - I won't really need a real portable CD/DVD drive for that computer. Too bad I cannot use the PCMCIA/PCCARD CD drive I've already got
greetings,
Robin