OK this is what you gonna do: 1) Make your external ssd or hdd a free space: For Windows you can use Partition Manager or if you don't have any os in your computer you can boot gparted to a usb and use it for making free space. 2) The installation process is pretty straightforward: Press next for every window (don't forget to tick the graphic cards) 3) When you come to the disk selection part choose 'Something Else'. Then create two partiotions in your free external device (ssd or hdd): First -> swap area(Logical, end of space, 8 gb), Second: ext4 file system (primary, beginning of space, remaining part of your external disk, mount point is "/") 4) Press next and finish the installation. 5) Enjoy!
Thanks for making this video. After about a year of running Linux Mint MATE successfully on a USB stick, I was ready to commit an entire Hard Drive to the OS. But, knowing Linux, I expected this to be a clumsy and awkward operation. Your step-by-step explanation made it all nice and clear, and simple, and I now have a brand new Linux Mint 17.2 hard drive which is working just fine. Like your video, mine also will boot right into Windows 7 if I so choose. There may be other tutorials out there, but yours is a tutorial that made sense to me and actually worked. Thanks again!
His external camera was set up so well, unlike other people's, that I didn't even know it was not a screencast until he showed his hard drive!!! Good work and effort man!
Worked around the problem, taking inspiration from this video. To have a working linux OS on removable external drive, I installed another Debian OS on a little partition on the internal drive, FOR LAST. This last OS provides the GRUB table and recognizes all the previously installed external OSs, if they are connected. Then, it works even with all the ext. drives disconnected. If You try to access a disconnected OS GRUB simply displays "no external disk found", and get back to the menu. Thanks Lenny!
Thanks, I've installed Ubuntu on a VM before but not an external, your step by step guide helped, there was an issue when I was trying to run my install to the drive but I figured it out and now I'm up and running. Thanks a whole bunch 👍👍
hi the video is great, however i am facing the following issues: I am using a ventoy drive which i created on a usb which contains the linux mint -cinnamon ISO. I booted successfully into Linux mint. I ran all the commands as detailed by you successfully. The identified partition is on windows :97gb /vol 6/ Letter U/ Raw which is sdc4 on linux. The installer began and i selected the partition sdc4 , however it gave an "Error - operation not permitted during write on /dev/mapper/ventoy" - what to do ??
Yeah before i found this i started to install it. I thought "huh i wonder if this affects other drives?" Shut it down and sure enough it had started to do that and was able to recover them.
But my question is can you install os on external hard drive leaving some space empty and after installing can we use empty space as normal external storage???
Yes it is possible. I just did that on my SSD with three partitions - 1 APFS, 2 FAT, 3 the Ext4. The only issue so far is that I can not access other external storages when running the OS on the SSD. I can see other partitions that are on the disk (1 and 2), but if I connect another drive it won’t recognize.
Would have been a thousand times more helpful if you started with showing where you found lubuntu, how you burned it on to your USB and what buttons you pressed to get the startup menu to access boot screen.
If you're struggling to mount an ISO onto your HDD then how have you ever installed Windows or Mac via USB? You need to install the bare bones of Linux onto your hard drive which is what you see right now.
+Kevin Cioffi Jr I have since completed this task, and it is very simple using Windows and a little program called Rufus. Having Ubuntu installed to install ubuntu is ridiculous.
+Colm Mathews Right, but in this instance he’s assuming that you know how to mount Linux to your hard drive. You don’t need to install Linux to run it. You can use Linux without having it fully installed. This is why I said you need to know how to install the barebones of Linux, if you can’t mount it to your hard drive then perhaps moving onto other projects such as Raspberry Pi might be a better idea until you’ve got the right idea.
Thanks, tried it on my own the first time and destroyed my boot.(already fixed it) Maybe this time it will work. Some comments seem to be unable to google.... Remembers me of the following sentence: "computer repair services are just better at using google." 😅
thank you . Its worked for me. I had an error "bootmgr is missing" because I made a partition for boot. after I watched this video I found out that I must only select the for example sdb or sdc or sdd . thanks
Thanks for the video, it helped my understanding a lot as I am not an IT guy. But I do have a question. The partitions confuse me. Can I format my SSD and use the whole thing for Linux only and skip the partitions? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I am not that knowledgeable about IT matters. Thanks.
I installed peppermint os on a usb stick. It booted and worked great on my dell with win 10 on it. I put the same usb on my i mac with corrupted hard drive and it would not boot however the i mac would boot the iso for peppermint on the usb. So for giggles I installed Manjaro xfce on the usb however I let the calmares installer do the automatic install and it works perfectly on the i mac with the dead hard drive. I noticed when Calmares did the install it added one extra very small boot-loader partion to it. I believe don't quote me because it was a week ago it was a 3 mib uefi partion. I have not used Manjarro in a couple of years but I am very impressed that calmares created a persistent usb automatically and yes I tried to do it automatically with peppermint and it did not work on the dell and I Mac. However my Manjarro usb done by calmares works on both machines.
WARNING: Followed exactly the steps in this tutorial. I'm 1000% sure, I selected the external drive as "device for bootloader installation" but nevertheless my windows bootloader got overwritten with grub on my internal drive! F*ck, thank you man! Was able to fix it like this: askubuntu.com/questions/429610/uninstall-grub-and-use-windows-bootloader Installed distribution was linux mint ulyana xfce edition, internal drive was listed as /dev/nvme..., external drive as /dev/sdb. As far as I understand the askubuntu writing, the grub stuff was installed into the EFI folder in the system partition of the drive (so not really boot sector but something with UEFI).
I used it for about a year on an 5400rpm laptop hdd using usb3.0 adapter case, connected to a usb 2.0 port, installed dual boot Ubuntu and Kali, worked perfectly, only had some problems with the performance when moving big files from system disk to internal hdd of a laptop
download a linux image, download win32diskimager, burn the image to a usb drive (all you need is like 4gb). then boot off the usb and use that as the base linux to install to an ssd/hdd
I have an external USB HDD with files in it. I want to do this by creating partitions, one partition for my files(700GB) , and another partition for Ubuntu(100GB). Is this possible? I don't want to try this and lose my files :c Also I want to know if it's possible to install multiples OS by creating several partitions in just one external HDD.
did u find out how to do that ? i have the same case. im worried if i do partition i might erase all the data. is there a way to do that without losing the data ?
Yes but how do I install the linux distro via mac os on to an external hdd connected via usb? I cannot seem to find info anywhere, please advise, thanks.
Nice video Len! more youtubers should use external cameras for illustration great work!! I did install to an external SSD on my Intel NUC the other day however one problem I did encounter, it does not allow you to run trim on external devices, do you see this as a problem, they also do recommend to leave a couple of gig of unallocated space at the end of the SSD, what are your thoughts?
you need Rufus or UnetBootin and second flash (and working Win/Linux PC). You make a flash bootable boot from it and install the system. And you don't have to be so fucking rude.
Really great tutorial!! I want to install Ubuntu on a TerraMaster F4-220, which has no exit for a monitor (I have ordered an adapter cable, but it is a long way from China, LOL). You can connect an USB drive with the firmware to the internal USB plug of the NAS. Before I get access to the NAS I install Ubuntu to an external drive and plug it afterwards to the NAS. The rest can be done over the network. Very important is your remark to inhibit overwriting the other disks. Espacially the swap partitions will be overwritten, if you do not exclude them separately. I could find no solution for this problem and stopped installation when I saw, that the swap partition of other drives would be formatted. GOOD JOB, THANKS!!
my big problem when installing it to usb is. you cant install it in any usb. i mean is if your using unbranded usb and its not even in standard speed. the installed os are way to slow to boot even slow to operate. you have to wait about 5 minutes in order to fully open an app. thats all i experience.
I'm quite familiar with Linux, but I'm really confused on the beginning. Why can't I just run the installer as normal instead of partitioning everything. I know there's reason behind it. Please explain.
Very interesting post. Quick question, given only one built in Windows 10 partition, and the Linux install on the external HD, will the system error, say if you did not want to connect the external HD for some reason on boot?
Hi ZeusOfAll, I faced the same issue. Did you find a solution to the problem yet? When I dont connect my external hard disk on boot, a grub error page pops up and I cant use windows or Linux.
Brilliant video. Help me a lot when my internal hard drive failed. Would love to try install Mac OS to external. Could you make video about doing it? Do I need a swap partition?
Thanks for the video Lenny, really good. If I wanted to do this with a flash drive (also via usb) would this be any different? Also, what happens to the GRUB menu when you unplug the external drive, will it automatically remove the entry for the OS on that drive?
Hi Lenny, is it possible to install Linux to an internal SSD, which is connected with a cable via USB to the notebook? If so, could you boot the OS? Just got an internal SSD-could that be used as external SSD for an OS?
though it works for everyone else like many of these tutorials this doesn't work for me! i keep getting the same "The partition /dev/sdc2 assigned to / starts at an offset of 3584 bytes from the minimum alignment for this disk".... says i should correct he problem!! how?? is there a glitch in gparted or ubuntu as a whole??
Thanks for the excellent tutorial. I have a good W10 image made with Clonezilla, which I have tested so I will try this USB install soon. Even if I make a mistake I can restore to Windows & try again!
Excellent video. I think that's just what I needed to see. Now, if I do it like this, will GRUB attempt to add my main drive into the boot order? I don't want to have the system having problems booting into WIn10 because the Linux external drive's not hooked up.
Dropped Debian Buster on external SSD Samsung T5, connected to my brand new Legion Y740-17irhg carrying Win 10 on internal SSD, with debian dual boot menu. Installed by using live USB pen-drive and internet. Worked fine 2 months, until I decided to remove the T5 before start-up...Win 10 started. However now BIOS cannot even see the T5 any more...with my Buster buried inside.
Is there any way I can put the installer on the hard drive to make it go faster? My install of mint takes forever, and it even takes a long time to format hte ext4 partitions? Would putting on hard drive make this faster? Is my USB 3.0 stick not a good stick for EXT4?
how can i install kali on a external usb stick. I have an usb stick of 64 gb and i try installing kali though another pendrive on that 64gb pendrive by using it as one of the drives in "choose disk" option. Every time it installs grub and all the files but during boot it dose not boot. In kali 2020.1 it gives a black screen with cursor blinking in kali 2019.4 it gives "tty1" loop error all the comands such as update,upgrade startx dose not work as bash error and in kali 2018.4 it boots and work (after setting grub nouvemau.modeset=0 due to nvidia driver )but after updating it stops working with white screen and a face saying some kernal problem and report to administrator please help
To be honest, I tried Linux for the first time last year on November, and I actually liked and disliked it at the same time. While I did overall enjoy the positive aspects, I sadly cannot access my external, Samsung PSSD T7 drive, (in other words, view the files I've stored inside) since its incompatible with Linux and there is no Linux version for VideoProc yet.
always getting this error: the partition /devsdb2 assigned to / starts at offset of 3584 bytes from the minimum alignment for this disk, which may lead to poor performance... trying to install LM on an enclosed external ssd
Ayesha Hasan i used the instructions at the link below to reformat the external then my install worked. www.linuxliteos.com/forums/installing-linux-lite/partition-alignment-prompt-at-install/
I did everything as you said....but at the end...when its time to install..... the little "busy" icon has now been spinning for the last 20 minutes with nothing else happening.... It has not moved off the linux mint home page...... am I still waiting form it to load onto my ssd ?? or have I fucked my entire system ??
how can I install windows 10 and manjaro on my sdd but save both windows 10 and manjaro files on my hdd(of course hdd will be partitioned) How do i do that?
I know you love the XFCE desktop. I've been wondering what are the perks you love about about it? Also I've been having a problem that I looking for answers too. I do a lot of editing mp3 files in audacity. I take a bunch of them and batch load them into separate audacity windows. While I'm waiting for them to load up, I want to go to a different workspace and browse the Internet. But audacity will start loading up into my new workspace. Is there a fix for this?
The reason I enjoy XFCE is because I can eliminate screen tearing by using a special startup command involving my nvidia card, and I don't need compton. Therefore XFCE's built in compositor can still be used, giving me the benefit of it's tranparency settings, etc.
***** Len I'm using a nvidia card GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] and currently I'm still using compton to make the panel transparent. I have both Force Composition and Force Full Compostion Pipeline saved in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I the vertical screen tearing is ok but not the horizontal. When I scroll up and down the screen tears. What do you do about that?
i'm attached New HDD Direct to Motherboard, how to rescan internal Hardware / i want to Use HDD without Reboot ??? in Linux i'm tried lot of commands finding this solution from two weeks please help
Hello, after going through the whole process as shown my drive will no show up on the boot menu, and also it wont show up as a drive when I boot onto windows as normal. If I go to do the process again and re -install on the drive it will recognize the drive.
OK this is what you gonna do:
1) Make your external ssd or hdd a free space: For Windows you can use Partition Manager or if you don't have any os in your computer you can boot gparted to a usb and use it for making free space.
2) The installation process is pretty straightforward: Press next for every window (don't forget to tick the graphic cards)
3) When you come to the disk selection part choose 'Something Else'. Then create two partiotions in your free external device (ssd or hdd): First -> swap area(Logical, end of space, 8 gb), Second: ext4 file system (primary, beginning of space, remaining part of your external disk, mount point is "/")
4) Press next and finish the installation.
5) Enjoy!
ty man x
Thanks for making this video. After about a year of running Linux Mint MATE successfully on a USB stick, I was ready to commit an entire Hard Drive to the OS.
But, knowing Linux, I expected this to be a clumsy and awkward operation. Your step-by-step explanation made it all nice and clear, and simple, and I now have a brand new Linux Mint 17.2 hard drive which is working just fine.
Like your video, mine also will boot right into Windows 7 if I so choose.
There may be other tutorials out there, but yours is a tutorial that made sense to me and actually worked.
Thanks again!
I think I'm getting it. I will watch this again before I make my move.
Best tutorial for installing on an external storage device
His external camera was set up so well, unlike other people's, that I didn't even know it was not a screencast until he showed his hard drive!!! Good work and effort man!
Worked around the problem, taking inspiration from this video. To have a working linux OS on removable external drive, I installed another Debian OS on a little partition on the internal drive, FOR LAST. This last OS provides the GRUB table and recognizes all the previously installed external OSs, if they are connected. Then, it works even with all the ext. drives disconnected. If You try to access a disconnected OS GRUB simply displays "no external disk found", and get back to the menu. Thanks Lenny!
Thanks for making this video! I always come back to make sure I'm not screwing up.
This. Was. Exactly. The. Video. I. Needed. Thank you so much, brother!
Thanks Lenny.
-Original Guy
Thanks for the great video! I watched a few others that were pretty confusing, but you explained this really well!
Thanks, I've installed Ubuntu on a VM before but not an external, your step by step guide helped, there was an issue when I was trying to run my install to the drive but I figured it out and now I'm up and running. Thanks a whole bunch 👍👍
hi the video is great, however i am facing the following issues: I am using a ventoy drive which i created on a usb which contains the linux mint -cinnamon ISO. I booted successfully into Linux mint. I ran all the commands as detailed by you successfully. The identified partition is on windows :97gb /vol 6/ Letter U/ Raw which is sdc4 on linux. The installer began and i selected the partition sdc4 , however it gave an "Error - operation not permitted during write on /dev/mapper/ventoy" - what to do ??
Hey, the person that doesn't allow us to call them "Lenny", thank you!
This is exactly what I was looking for thank you.
Thank You , I learned to check off do not use in which nobody else has mentioned i was worried about affecting my other drives
Yeah before i found this i started to install it. I thought "huh i wonder if this affects other drives?" Shut it down and sure enough it had started to do that and was able to recover them.
Thanks for the turorial, Lenny!
But my question is can you install os on external hard drive leaving some space empty and after installing can we use empty space as normal external storage???
did you found out?
He said you can do that but i havent tried yet....
Yes you can you just need to partition the drive
Can you install ubuntu on an external usb hdd that has 2 partitions (1st is for data and the 2nd for ubuntu) without touching the 1st partition?
Have you found an answer to this
@@pallorafutho7563 Yes, you can, but I installed ubuntu to my internal NVMe storage.
Yes it is possible. I just did that on my SSD with three partitions - 1 APFS, 2 FAT, 3 the Ext4.
The only issue so far is that I can not access other external storages when running the OS on the SSD. I can see other partitions that are on the disk (1 and 2), but if I connect another drive it won’t recognize.
hi bro very informative, the same process for inbuilt ssd?
Would have been a thousand times more helpful if you started with showing where you found lubuntu, how you burned it on to your USB and what buttons you pressed to get the startup menu to access boot screen.
Just google linux.com. you can find it there
Can this process be applied to a new empty internal ssd?
duncpol Yes
But make sure u disable in bios or physically if u use it.
Hi Lenny! Thank you for the video, really helped.
So neatly explained... God Bless
How to install Ubuntu;
Step 1:
Have Ubuntu installed
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS...?
If you're struggling to mount an ISO onto your HDD then how have you ever installed Windows or Mac via USB? You need to install the bare bones of Linux onto your hard drive which is what you see right now.
+Kevin Cioffi Jr
I have since completed this task, and it is very simple using Windows and a little program called Rufus. Having Ubuntu installed to install ubuntu is ridiculous.
+Colm Mathews Right, but in this instance he’s assuming that you know how to mount Linux to your hard drive. You don’t need to install Linux to run it. You can use Linux without having it fully installed. This is why I said you need to know how to install the barebones of Linux, if you can’t mount it to your hard drive then perhaps moving onto other projects such as Raspberry Pi might be a better idea until you’ve got the right idea.
Hahahahaha
Colm 😂
Thanks, tried it on my own the first time and destroyed my boot.(already fixed it)
Maybe this time it will work.
Some comments seem to be unable to google....
Remembers me of the following sentence: "computer repair services are just better at using google." 😅
thank you . Its worked for me. I had an error "bootmgr is missing" because I made a partition for boot. after I watched this video I found out that I must only select the for example sdb or sdc or sdd . thanks
Thanks for the video, it helped my understanding a lot as I am not an IT guy. But I do have a question. The partitions confuse me. Can I format my SSD and use the whole thing for Linux only and skip the partitions? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I am not that knowledgeable about IT matters. Thanks.
I installed peppermint os on a usb stick. It booted and worked great on my dell with win 10 on it. I put the same usb on my i mac with corrupted hard drive and it would not boot however the i mac would boot the iso for peppermint on the usb. So for giggles I installed Manjaro xfce on the usb however I let the calmares installer do the automatic install and it works perfectly on the i mac with the dead hard drive. I noticed when Calmares did the install it added one extra very small boot-loader partion to it. I believe don't quote me because it was a week ago it was a 3 mib uefi partion. I have not used Manjarro in a couple of years but I am very impressed that calmares created a persistent usb automatically and yes I tried to do it automatically with peppermint and it did not work on the dell and I Mac. However my Manjarro usb done by calmares works on both machines.
WARNING: Followed exactly the steps in this tutorial. I'm 1000% sure, I selected the external drive as "device for bootloader installation" but nevertheless my windows bootloader got overwritten with grub on my internal drive! F*ck, thank you man! Was able to fix it like this: askubuntu.com/questions/429610/uninstall-grub-and-use-windows-bootloader
Installed distribution was linux mint ulyana xfce edition, internal drive was listed as /dev/nvme..., external drive as /dev/sdb.
As far as I understand the askubuntu writing, the grub stuff was installed into the EFI folder in the system partition of the drive (so not really boot sector but something with UEFI).
This was very helpful, and well explained! Thanks!
Thank you very much for making this video! You saved me :)
Thank you, Len
What about an installation which boots Windows normally without grub when the external ssd is unplugged?
Very clear! Thanks
great tutorial! many thanks!
Really useful, thanks ❤️
Thanks for the interesting video. I think I can also use this for a second internal SSD with Linux Mint and leave Win 10 on the first SSD.
Thanks for this video 👍. When we Install on an external HDD (usb 3.0), what about the performance (speed) ?
I used it for about a year on an 5400rpm laptop hdd using usb3.0 adapter case, connected to a usb 2.0 port, installed dual boot Ubuntu and Kali, worked perfectly, only had some problems with the performance when moving big files from system disk to internal hdd of a laptop
Hi there! I have a question. Can other Linux distros, like Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin OS be used with this method?
Thanks Lenny
I have a question:
Which hard drive do you use on your linux pc?
do you have video on how to do the same thing with windows 10 I'm using windows 10 instead of linux and I want linux on a external hard drive
download a linux image, download win32diskimager, burn the image to a usb drive (all you need is like 4gb). then boot off the usb and use that as the base linux to install to an ssd/hdd
@@androth1502 gives grub bashline error on boot from external hdd
I have an external USB HDD with files in it. I want to do this by creating partitions, one partition for my files(700GB) , and another partition for Ubuntu(100GB). Is this possible? I don't want to try this and lose my files :c
Also I want to know if it's possible to install multiples OS by creating several partitions in just one external HDD.
did u find out how to do that ? i have the same case. im worried if i do partition i might erase all the data. is there a way to do that without losing the data ?
so, i'm installing this like on internal drive?
One thing you must do is disable swap on the ssd after you have made the install..
/etc/sysctl.conf
vm.swappiness=0
swap not needed on an SSD
Good job. Will I then be able to use the external flash drive to operate linux on a different computer?
The million $ question is precisely that! If incase you find a solution please let me know!
@@lawrencemaria I would imagine that you can boot from any bios and run from the external SSD. Now you're filthy rich :)
@@mdtaylor2274 well not exactly filthy rich! It just gives us the possibility of using a particular OS to execute a required function or software!
Yes but how do I install the linux distro via mac os on to an external hdd connected via usb? I cannot seem to find info anywhere, please advise, thanks.
this will probably need usb 3.0 right?
is your windows on your native HD or the external? I'd like to do the same thing for my wifes PC because she is scared to completely format her HD.
Nice video Len! more youtubers should use external cameras for illustration great work!! I did install to an external SSD on my Intel NUC the other day however one problem I did encounter, it does not allow you to run trim on external devices, do you see this as a problem, they also do recommend to leave a couple of gig of unallocated space at the end of the SSD, what are your thoughts?
Do you have any video guiding to make external HDD to be a bootable?
WHY AND HOW CAN YOU INSTALL STAIGHT TO A HARDDRIVE WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND A TUTORIAL FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
There are lots of videos available that clearly show how to install Linux to a HDD or internal SSD.
you need Rufus or UnetBootin and second flash (and working Win/Linux PC). You make a flash bootable boot from it and install the system. And you don't have to be so fucking rude.
@@davidciprys7811 the "rudeness" is actually making me laugh lmao
There are plenty of installation articles and tutorials online. You fail at internet.
@@davidciprys7811
in my case , both rufus and etcher did not recognize the blank ssd (ntfs at the moment) any tips? Is formatting a must?
Really great tutorial!! I want to install Ubuntu on a TerraMaster F4-220, which has no exit for a monitor (I have ordered an adapter cable, but it is a long way from China, LOL). You can connect an USB drive with the firmware to the internal USB plug of the NAS. Before I get access to the NAS I install Ubuntu to an external drive and plug it afterwards to the NAS. The rest can be done over the network.
Very important is your remark to inhibit overwriting the other disks. Espacially the swap partitions will be overwritten, if you do not exclude them separately. I could find no solution for this problem and stopped installation when I saw, that the swap partition of other drives would be formatted. GOOD JOB, THANKS!!
If i downloaded LINUX on a HDD or external hard drive and once i am running Linux should i unplug my HDD or should i still plug it in when using it
my big problem when installing it to usb is. you cant install it in any usb. i mean is if your using unbranded usb and its not even in standard speed. the installed os are way to slow to boot even slow to operate. you have to wait about 5 minutes in order to fully open an app. thats all i experience.
Can you please make a video of installing Kali Linux on USB?
How did you get the grub menu to pop up?
what about a Pendrive... can I use a Pendrive as my only storage to install kali...??
So what happens if i try to boot computer without external ssd connected to USB port, after linux is installed on external ssd
Nothing it'll just boot to ur normal windows
I'm quite familiar with Linux, but I'm really confused on the beginning. Why can't I just run the installer as normal instead of partitioning everything. I know there's reason behind it. Please explain.
Great video Lenny!!
Very interesting post. Quick question, given only one built in Windows 10 partition, and the Linux install on the external HD, will the system error, say if you did not want to connect the external HD for some reason on boot?
Hi ZeusOfAll, I faced the same issue. Did you find a solution to the problem yet? When I dont connect my external hard disk on boot, a grub error page pops up and I cant use windows or Linux.
Hey ZenusOfAll,
Did you find any solution for this
Linux boot loader must be installed on the external drive as well.
How do you get Lubuntu onto your USB in the first place ?
Brilliant video. Help me a lot when my internal hard drive failed. Would love to try install Mac OS to external. Could you make video about doing it? Do I need a swap partition?
Thanks for the video Lenny, really good. If I wanted to do this with a flash drive (also via usb) would this be any different? Also, what happens to the GRUB menu when you unplug the external drive, will it automatically remove the entry for the OS on that drive?
Once the USB is unplugged, the system will revert back to my main grub screen.
Hi Lenny, is it possible to install Linux to an internal SSD, which is
connected with a cable via USB to the notebook? If so, could you boot
the OS? Just got an internal SSD-could that be used as external SSD for an OS?
It would work the same internal or external. Just the address would be different.
Will it boot to windows if I start my computer without plugging in the hard disk ?
Hello Len !
You've got a bunch of OSes!!!:)
Best regards,
Serge
Thanks Serge!
Can I Use this method for Deepin OS with windows 10 ? Cause I really don't want to screw up my windows .
can i install kali linux using same method in external usb
will it be the same method if you have a ssd set up as a second hdd?
though it works for everyone else like many of these tutorials this doesn't work for me! i keep getting the same "The partition /dev/sdc2 assigned to / starts at an offset of 3584 bytes from the minimum alignment for this disk".... says i should correct he problem!! how?? is there a glitch in gparted or ubuntu as a whole??
hey, I have the same problem. Have you found a solution yet?
Did you ever find a solution?
what conky clock are you using
Thanks for the excellent tutorial. I have a good W10 image made with Clonezilla, which I have tested so I will try this USB install soon. Even if I make a mistake I can restore to Windows & try again!
Excellent video. I think that's just what I needed to see.
Now, if I do it like this, will GRUB attempt to add my main drive into the boot order? I don't want to have the system having problems booting into WIn10 because the Linux external drive's not hooked up.
I have no problem booting into Windows with my external drive removed.
But I cant see the ssd when installing from thumb drive. I have Gigabyte B550 Mobo.
Thanks a lot!
Dropped Debian Buster on external SSD Samsung T5, connected to my brand new Legion Y740-17irhg carrying Win 10 on internal SSD, with debian dual boot menu. Installed by using live USB pen-drive and internet. Worked fine 2 months, until I decided to remove the T5 before start-up...Win 10 started. However now BIOS cannot even see the T5 any more...with my Buster buried inside.
thanks lenny
Is there any way I can put the installer on the hard drive to make it go faster? My install of mint takes forever, and it even takes a long time to format hte ext4 partitions? Would putting on hard drive make this faster? Is my USB 3.0 stick not a good stick for EXT4?
how can i install kali on a external usb stick. I have an usb stick of 64 gb and i try installing kali though another pendrive on that 64gb pendrive by using it as one of the drives in "choose disk" option. Every time it installs grub and all the files but during boot it dose not boot. In kali 2020.1 it gives a black screen with cursor blinking in kali 2019.4 it gives "tty1" loop error all the comands such as update,upgrade startx dose not work as bash error and in kali 2018.4 it boots and work (after setting grub nouvemau.modeset=0 due to nvidia driver )but after updating it stops working with white screen and a face saying some kernal problem and report to administrator please help
To be honest, I tried Linux for the first time last year on November, and I actually liked and disliked it at the same time. While I did overall enjoy the positive aspects, I sadly cannot access my external, Samsung PSSD T7 drive, (in other words, view the files I've stored inside) since its incompatible with Linux and there is no Linux version for VideoProc yet.
hello thanks for the great video bro.I wish to do this. Can u please tell which has low booting time external ssd or external HDD please reply...
always getting this error:
the partition /devsdb2 assigned to / starts at offset of 3584 bytes from the minimum alignment for this disk, which may lead to poor performance...
trying to install LM on an enclosed external ssd
Same problem
Ayesha Hasan
i used the instructions at the link below to reformat the external then my install worked.
www.linuxliteos.com/forums/installing-linux-lite/partition-alignment-prompt-at-install/
When i press install now it says i have no EFI files, what can i do?? Please
I did everything as you said....but at the end...when its time to install..... the little "busy" icon has now been spinning for the last 20 minutes with nothing else happening.... It has not moved off the linux mint home page...... am I still waiting form it to load onto my ssd ?? or have I fucked my entire system ??
What if windows is able to boot after the install? Is there a way to troubleshoot that? 12:17
Hi bro i have a external hdd 3.0 can i install kali live in it?
When he booted into legacy instead of UEFI, I felt that.
The feels
Or creating a GPT when it's actually MBR 😬
my laptop has 256 GB ssd and 1 TB hdd. How to have Windows on ssd and linux on hdd with partition
What would happen if i forgot to check do not use for the other swap partition?
how can I install windows 10 and manjaro on my sdd but save both windows 10 and manjaro files on my hdd(of course hdd will be partitioned) How do i do that?
Thanks it works!
I know you love the XFCE desktop. I've been wondering what are the perks you love about about it? Also I've been having a problem that I looking for answers too. I do a lot of editing mp3 files in audacity. I take a bunch of them and batch load them into separate audacity windows. While I'm waiting for them to load up, I want to go to a different workspace and browse the Internet. But audacity will start loading up into my new workspace. Is there a fix for this?
The reason I enjoy XFCE is because I can eliminate screen tearing by using a special startup command involving my nvidia card, and I don't need compton. Therefore XFCE's built in compositor can still be used, giving me the benefit of it's tranparency settings, etc.
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Len I'm using a nvidia card GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] and currently I'm still using compton to make the panel transparent. I have both Force Composition and Force Full Compostion Pipeline saved in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I the vertical screen tearing is ok but not the horizontal. When I scroll up and down the screen tears. What do you do about that?
Thanks Len for another useful video. I presume the same procedure could be used to put Arch or Manjaro (Mate) on an external USB device. Thank you.
That is correct.
If I have 4gb of ram then the swap area is 4gb right? And i have only windows so... I don't know if I have to add the swap Area..
i'm attached New HDD Direct to Motherboard,
how to rescan internal Hardware / i want to Use HDD without Reboot ??? in Linux
i'm tried lot of commands
finding this solution from two weeks
please help
what is a patition? im a newb
Hello, after going through the whole process as shown my drive will no show up on the boot menu, and also it wont show up as a drive when I boot onto windows as normal. If I go to do the process again and re -install on the drive it will recognize the drive.
Good video.