nikRbokR
September 8th, 2010, 06:15 PM
I was wondering if anyone knew a good/easy method of installing Ubuntu to an external drive.
I have Windows 7 installed on the HD in my laptop and I'm using some of the space on my external drive already. But I was just planning on using Gparted and adding a partition to my external drive.
From there, I would assume that it's as simple as installing with the Live CD (making sure to put the boot loader onto the Ubuntu partition on the external drive) but I've tried doing this some time before and it's been a pain.
From what I remember, I had to go and mess around with some of the files associated with boot up to rearrange some of the hard drive information.
I was hoping that there's an easier way to do this now (I'm pretty sure I tried it with 7.10, so it's been a while).
Thanks!
I have Windows 7 installed on the HD in my laptop and I'm using some of the space on my external drive already. But I was just planning on using Gparted and adding a partition to my external drive.
From there, I would assume that it's as simple as installing with the Live CD (making sure to put the boot loader onto the Ubuntu partition on the external drive) but I've tried doing this some time before and it's been a pain.
From what I remember, I had to go and mess around with some of the files associated with boot up to rearrange some of the hard drive information.
I was hoping that there's an easier way to do this now (I'm pretty sure I tried it with 7.10, so it's been a while).
Thanks!