pieter512
July 23rd, 2014, 08:59 AM
Hello
I have Ubuntu installed on an external hard disk for quite some time now, and I wondered if it was possible to have a hard disk with both Ubuntu and an Ubuntu flavour, like Ubuntu studio.
I deleted my ntfs partition, and made it a new smaller ntfs partition and an ext4 partition. I didn’t change my Ubuntu 14.04 ext4(extended) and swap partitions.
Then I ran the Ubuntu Studio installer from a usb flash drive, and chose ‘something else’ for the install location. I selected my new ext4 partition, ‘use as ext4 logging file system’, checked the format box, and set ‘mount point’ to ‘/’.
After the install was completed, and I tried booting from the hard drive, but there wasn’t an option for Ubuntu Studio… (it only showed ‘ubuntu’, this was my first partition, ‘Ubuntu 14.04’ and ‘windows 8 loader’, those last two options are installed on my internal hard disk.)
Gparted shows that there is 6GB used on the partition, and the flag is 'boot', so I guess it did install Ubuntu Studio?
254943
Is there a way to get this working without reinstalling my existing Ubuntu 14.04?
Thanks in advance
Pieter
I have Ubuntu installed on an external hard disk for quite some time now, and I wondered if it was possible to have a hard disk with both Ubuntu and an Ubuntu flavour, like Ubuntu studio.
I deleted my ntfs partition, and made it a new smaller ntfs partition and an ext4 partition. I didn’t change my Ubuntu 14.04 ext4(extended) and swap partitions.
Then I ran the Ubuntu Studio installer from a usb flash drive, and chose ‘something else’ for the install location. I selected my new ext4 partition, ‘use as ext4 logging file system’, checked the format box, and set ‘mount point’ to ‘/’.
After the install was completed, and I tried booting from the hard drive, but there wasn’t an option for Ubuntu Studio… (it only showed ‘ubuntu’, this was my first partition, ‘Ubuntu 14.04’ and ‘windows 8 loader’, those last two options are installed on my internal hard disk.)
Gparted shows that there is 6GB used on the partition, and the flag is 'boot', so I guess it did install Ubuntu Studio?
254943
Is there a way to get this working without reinstalling my existing Ubuntu 14.04?
Thanks in advance
Pieter