Answer by C.S.Cameron for Installing Ubuntu in a external hard drive and NOT...
Unplug your internal drive or use a computer without one.boot your Live DVD or Live USB.Plug in your target drive and do a normal install.(You cant screw up your HDD if it is not there).If you want to...
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"You will also want a small swap partition of 4GB size (not shown in the picture) with no mount point, in its own Linux/Swap format to be used as virtual memory."Never install a swap partition on a...
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Bug Alert!There is a bug (bug number: 1396379) in the Ubuntu installer that installs the grub bootloader on the first ESP it finds. See https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2182302 for discussions...
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You don't need to have grub on the external device, just have the external device be bootable.This can be done from within Windows using the Universal USB Installer, available here:...
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Simply install grub to the external usb device instead of to your internal hard disk. Leave the boot order with the internal hard disk before the usb, and you should have the setup you described. Other...
View ArticleInstalling Ubuntu in a external hard drive and NOT placing GRUB of my C: hard...
what I want to do is this.I have an external hard disk drive, a SEAGATE expansion 1TB, you can take it a look...
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