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    Re: New 'puter coming......

    Quote Originally Posted by Autodave View Post
    So.....I can put my 24.04 installation USB in one port and boot to that and then have it install to an SSD that is in another port? Is that correct?
    Yes that's right....But be sure you know the real destination drive. But you know that.
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    Re: New 'puter coming......

    If installer sees internal drive, it may install grub to internal drive's ESP. Which you may not want, if you ever want to use external drive with any other system. Often better to have boot files on external drive.

    Old installer only only installed to first drive, I use Kubuntu and its installer gives a choice on ESP.
    But with Ubuntu supposedly the choice is there, but you may need ESP - efi system partition FAT32 on external drive first.
    Once on external drive, it may depend on your UEFI how you boot. It may have an "ubuntu" entry or just a drive entry just like live installer. And often disconnecting an external drive has it lose UEFI Ubuntu entries & you have to use the drive entry. My Dell remembers entry, my desktop does not.

    I prefer to use gparted to set up partitions in advance and use Manual install to choose partitions. If larger drive, I use smaller / (root) and do not normally allocate entire drive initially.
    Last edited by oldfred; November 18th, 2024 at 10:58 PM.
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    Re: New 'puter coming......

    +1
    I prefer to use gparted to set up partitions in advance
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    I omitted that. When you first plugin your LiveUSB you create using mkusb or Rachel you first use "Try Ubuntu" not "Install". In Try Ubuntu mode install gparted (if not already installed) and then format and partition your target external SSD where you plan to install Ubuntu. Make sure that your first partition is FAT for loaders (mine is 500 MBS in size) and you set EFI boot flags. Your next partition wil be EXT4 where Ubuntu is installed. You might choose to create other partition for data shared with Windows. So yes you will require two ports for this exercise. Or a port expander.

    Last edited by dragonfly41; November 18th, 2024 at 11:44 PM.

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    Re: New 'puter coming......

    Got an idea......I have a couple other machines sitting around.....none of them have hard drives at the moment. I could use one of those to make the bootable SSD on. Then, when turning the new machine on with the SSD attached, I could just use the boot manager to pick what to boot to. That way I don't screw up the Windows installation on the new machine. Plus, except for removing the nVidia driver, I can take the SSD to any other machine and boot it to Linux. That should work.......

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    Re: New 'puter coming......

    I used my external SSD on my Dell with Intel 11th Gen, Desktop with Intel 6th Gen and even an old BIOS Intel duo-core2.
    With old BIOS system, I had to add a BIOS boot stanza on its HDD to directly boot SSD as old system not UEFI. Others I could boot from ESP on SSD.

    Not of my systems have proprietary drivers which would complicate booting. If external drive large enough, you could have different installs, configured differently but using same data partition(s). I do not share /home.
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    Re: New 'puter coming......

    If external drive large enough, you could have different installs, configured differently but using same data partition(s).

    Good idea. I might use one of my two plugin caddies in StarTech docking bay to hold multiple installations. Indeed Cubic could be used to customise them. Edubuntu comes to mind for eLearning. One caddy is in use already .. for writing this in Ubuntu.


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