trebllaw
July 31st, 2008, 03:06 AM
First of all Id like to explain how installed Ubuntu on my external hard drive so that the problem would be clear..
I have a Western Digital 160gb external hard drive which was mainly used for backup files on a windows machine.. Now as i was searching the net, i came across a tutorial on how to install Ubuntu 7.10 to an external hard drive so i did just that.. We dont have a net connection at home so updates were not installed..
this is my partition table:
/dev/sda1 - ntfs partition for files
/dev/sda2 - Ubuntu root partition
/dev/sda3 - Ubuntu swap partition
oh i forgot to mention that my internal hard drive was unplugged so the live cd and the external hard drive where the only disks found by ubuntu..
Now, when i boot from the external hard drive it gives me "Error 2" which when i searched the net refers to grub not installed properly.. Is my partition table ok? If so how do i fix the "Error 2" problem?
Next question.. Since i do not have a net connection at home, how do i install applications on Ubuntu [provided i fixed the booting problem :) ]. Ive downloaded several .deb packages and tried installing it to a friends computer (Ubuntu 7.10 also, and no net connection) but it gives me dependency errors..
Thanks..
I have a Western Digital 160gb external hard drive which was mainly used for backup files on a windows machine.. Now as i was searching the net, i came across a tutorial on how to install Ubuntu 7.10 to an external hard drive so i did just that.. We dont have a net connection at home so updates were not installed..
this is my partition table:
/dev/sda1 - ntfs partition for files
/dev/sda2 - Ubuntu root partition
/dev/sda3 - Ubuntu swap partition
oh i forgot to mention that my internal hard drive was unplugged so the live cd and the external hard drive where the only disks found by ubuntu..
Now, when i boot from the external hard drive it gives me "Error 2" which when i searched the net refers to grub not installed properly.. Is my partition table ok? If so how do i fix the "Error 2" problem?
Next question.. Since i do not have a net connection at home, how do i install applications on Ubuntu [provided i fixed the booting problem :) ]. Ive downloaded several .deb packages and tried installing it to a friends computer (Ubuntu 7.10 also, and no net connection) but it gives me dependency errors..
Thanks..