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komrad
July 22nd, 2008, 02:32 PM
Hi all,

I've read through many forums how to do this, but it doesn't seem to work. I keep my internal hard drive attached, and I install Ubuntu to my external hard drive fine, but when the installation tries to install GRUB, I get an error message. I've even tried clicking on the advanced button and telling it to install at /dev/sdb but I still get the error.

If I take my internal hard drive out during install would this help?

Any takers for what might be going on? Thanks

Pumalite
July 22nd, 2008, 02:34 PM
This will help:
http://www.ubuntuswitch.com/2006/08/01/installing-ubuntu-on-an-external-usb-hard-drive/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789528&highlight=Herman