How do I install Ubuntu on a external drive please?

[Focuslined]

Dear Mac Community,

I am making this thread for help regarding how to Install Ubuntu OS on a external SSD drive.

From my understanding, apple may be limit users to do this because apple are shellfish and nuters.
But oh boy, I guess in this society we need nutters to run everything, oh well that's just great.


anyway, moving right along here, down to serious business:
How may I install Ubuntu OS on a external SSD please?.

Can it be done?.


I THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart, from my legs, to send it all out, to send this thank you.


thank you people.

 

[laurihoefs]

Shellfish you say

Here's a link to a guide: Mac How-To Install Ubuntu to External USB Hard Drive. It's written in 2010, but is still perfectly valid.

If your Mac has no optical drive, you'll need to make a USB installer, and use that instead of the CD mentioned in the guide.

 

[Julien]

I'm guessing English is 2ed (or maybe 3ed) language and he/she is not aware of the tone. After all how many times have you been thanked from someones legs?

Shellfish you say ....

I had shellfish this weekend and yum.

 

[Focuslined]

I'm guessing English is 2ed (or maybe 3ed) language and he/she is not aware of the tone.



I had shellfish this weekend and yum.

Hello,

English is my first language, why is my English awful?. Do I need to read more or even write more?, such as write more stories?.

Thank you.



if it matters, got delexia and some others

 

[Focuslined]

Shellfish you say

Here's a link to a guide: Mac How-To Install Ubuntu to External USB Hard Drive. It's written in 2010, but is still perfectly valid.

If your Mac has no optical drive, you'll need to make a USB installer, and use that instead of the CD mentioned in the guide.

thank you.

 

[RubberSol]

Hi, I've used your tutorial to make my Ubuntu external Hard Drive, and it works perfectly...

Now I need to work with the partitions. And I don't know how to begin with that.

My external HD was partitioned that way:

/ (40Gb)

/home (40Gb)

swap (32Gb)

/ boot efi (or something like that) (50Mb)

fat32 (200Gb)

When I boot the system, it shows me the internal HD (the OSX one), and the /boot efi (or something like that), and don't show the fat32 partition. And I wanna just the oposite... =(
Cause I want to use the fat32 partition like a pen drive to work on any system that i work on...

Hope that you understand my question, and can help. Thank you very much.

 

[2984839]

Hi, I've used your tutorial to make my Ubuntu external Hard Drive, and it works perfectly...

Now I need to work with the partitions. And I don't know how to begin with that.

My external HD was partitioned that way:

/ (40Gb)

/home (40Gb)

swap (32Gb)

/ boot efi (or something like that) (50Mb)

fat32 (200Gb)

When I boot the system, it shows me the internal HD (the OSX one), and the /boot efi (or something like that), and don't show the fat32 partition. And I wanna just the oposite... =(
Cause I want to use the fat32 partition like a pen drive to work on any system that i work on...

Hope that you understand my question, and can help. Thank you very much.

Post your /etc/fstab file. It may not be automounting the fat32 partition at boot.

 

[RubberSol]

Going in the page, i saw that:

1. I installed reFIND first. (By just dropping the install file into terminal).

In the last commentary... Now, i tried that, and can't install...

I install the reFIND, first, in the external HD. Then i put the Ubuntu DVD, and begin install... Ok...

BUT

When i got to partition the External HD to make the partitions of linux (/ ; swap ; /home), it don't let me do it... =/
Then, I can't install... I can install if I let the External HD free, but then i need a CD or a PenDrive with reFIND, thats dumb... I just wanna install reFind there, and boot with just one drive...

As you see, format the External HD thats not a problem... But how can I install reFIND, and format the free space later?