Installing Ubuntu onto an externally connected hard drive

[Forte]

I have an internal hard drive connected to my computer through a USB port and I am wondering how to install a fully-functional Ubuntu onto the drive as the only OS. There is nothing on the drive and I can drag and drop files onto it.

And if you're wondering, I am going to put the drive into another computer. And my current computer cannot write onto floppies.

[Mighty_Joe]

Just use the Live CD installer. Just make sure you install Grub to the external disk. That option is on the last step (the one that has a text box summarizing your partitions). Click on the "Advanced" button.

[Forte]

I am slightly confused because this is the first time I have had an empty hard drive. Could you provide a link to a guide on how to do this or could you please provide steps for how to do this.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

[Mighty_Joe]

instructions for a flash drive (http://beastie.cs.ua.edu/cs150/usb-install.html). They should be the same for an external hard drive