Ubuntu :: How To Install 9.10 On USB Hard Drive
Apr 11, 2010
I am currently using XP and I would like to try ubuntu 9.10. I already tried ubuntu 9.10 using virtualbox and Im impressed by the look and performance. However, I still need more time before I fully install ubuntu in my notebook.
I'm aware that linux's distro is possible to be installed and boot from USB. Most tutorials that I google provide step by step on how to install linux distro (fedora,ubuntu,mint) to USB stick and flash. The dilemma is that I don't have USB stick instead I only have 320gb USB hard drive. And I tried to install ubuntu 9.10 using unetbooting to my USB hard drive but my hard drive is not listed in the USB drive box option.
For information, I created two partition in my USB hard drive, 150gb each. Is it possible to install ubuntu 9.10 on partition 2 and boot the OS from there?
how to install ubuntu 9.10 to a USB hard drive (second partition).
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Jan 25, 2010
I got a dell inspiron 1501 laptop with a 80Gb sata drive what is the best solution to add data storage space for someone that love to have multiples operating systems at hand Note: I use mostly linux so I won't need to change my laptop for many years maybe ...
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Mar 16, 2010
My parents bought a new hard drive for a laptop that I've owned for several years. It's much larger than the current one, so I plan on splitting it up to dual boot it with Ubuntu.I have no problem with partitioning a drive (I always keep a LiveCD handy), but my question is this: how can I go about moving the existing partition to the new drive? This is a laptop, so I can't simply plug the new drive into another slot.
Also, even if I manage to move it, will Windows still work on the new drive in a larger partition? I've had this laptop for quite a while, and I've lost the recovery discs that came with it a long time ago. I also have a lot of software without CDs to reinstall them with. This makes not reinstalling Windows a high priority.
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Jul 27, 2011
I have a setup with 3 hard drives. The first hard drive has windows 7 and is a solid state, for my fast computing needs. The second hard drive has another copy of windows 7 on one partition and Ubuntu 11.04 on another (and SWAP space).The third hard drive is just storage.Grub is installed on the first(SSD) hard drive, as well as the MBR (master boot record) for the two windows installs (select win7 in grub, then it lets me select which windows install to boot).Now I want to get rid of my solid state drive, and just run from the second hard drive with dual boot.How can I install a new MBR on the second hard drive without having to re-install both OS's?I've tried removing the first hard drive and using bootrec.exe to re-write the MBR and it will not work.I can install grub, and it boots to ubuntu but when I try windows 7 it says there is no MBR.
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Jun 3, 2011
I have a laptop with only 30GB storage and I want to install Lubuntu in virtual box but Lubuntu needs 5GB of storage space which i dont have. Could i use an external 160GB hard drive to act as the hard drive for the virtual machine without affecting the files that are already on the external hard drive
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Mar 7, 2011
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Apr 14, 2011
From long ago I think I remember that, in order to install a new hard disk, I must:
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Jul 25, 2011
I have an existing Windows 7 machine that I am moving to Ubuntu. This is important, it will NOT be a dual boot machine.
Here is the system setup;
320GB Seagate SATA drive split into a 40GB OS partition (where Windows 7 was) and the rest partitioned for extra storage. In addition, I have a LSI MegaRAID 8480E RAID card with four 1TB Seagate SATA drives configured in a RAID 5.
The plan was to install Ubuntu on the 40GB partition, overwriting and erasing Windows 7. The RAID array is storage only, NOT for any OS operation, so it really doesn't matter here, except for the oddity that this is the ONLY partition the Ubuntu installer sees, not the 320 or any of it's partitions.
Now, here's the best part. When I go into GParted or the Disk Utility, both show the 320GB installed, in fact, when I go into the Computer section, I can open and access the data on the 259GB storage partition while using the live CD. The hard drive is working, and the system sees it...it just does not list it as an option to install to.
I used GParted to delete and reformat the Windows partition (set it as ext4), and it still will not show anything but the RAID array as an install point. I made sure to unmount the 320GB hard drive before installing as well, no luck.
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I recently installed Ubunutu Notebook Edition on my notebook, and i had dual boot with Windows XP Home.However i was wondering i could just have Ubuntu as my main OS and just wipe Windows XP Home edition off my harddrive from within Ubunutu and just reinstall Ubunutu to take the whole hard drive?
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Feb 20, 2010
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Aug 19, 2010
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My machine dos,nt allow booting from usb, ( i,e install from usb drive )
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Mar 23, 2011
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Jan 2, 2010
Am trying to install Ubuntu 9.1 on hard drive 2 rather than hard drive 1(7 year old XP machine with 74 GB drive 1) Hard drive 2 is a Firewire-connected External Western Digital.)
with only a 41 MB partition avaialble for Linux).
Allocations are:
After install finsishes the boot process fails with:
Restored the MBR from a Windows CD, and thinking the boot loader needed to be in the MBR area of sdb, installed again with "Install Boot Loader" specified as sdb. Same results.
Restored the MBR and installed again with "Install Boot Loader" specified as hd0. Same results.
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Booted successfully, but when installing updates, there was insufficeient space in the boot partition and could not restart.
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Dec 31, 2009
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Maybe someone has tried this before? Someone has created a dedicated large hard drive that is essentially the same thing as a ubuntu installation usb flash drive, to boot from an then install Ubuntu onto another "new" hard drive? I think it would be nice to have a hard drive (external usb or even better, an internal hdd drive i could hot swap to each new computer I have that I wish to install it onto.. ) And I think it would be so much faster to install from a Sata internal HDD drive than a USB pendrive or a cd/dvd rom, right?
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a) formatting the drive,
b) not keeping the 2 partitions, and
c) re-installing Ubuntu (karmic) back onto it?
I have GParted ( but I can't see how to use it to format ), and I have no clue how to format the Drive from either within the GUI or at the command-line. How do I format & re-install Ubuntu? What is the sequence or steps? I can probably do the re-install intuitively but I'm concerned there may be Ubuntu tricks I don't know about! Also- does this 2 partition thing cause any complications to formatting?? So honestly my question is simply how to format the drive from within the system.
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I just see a purple ubuntu screen with 4 dots which alternate between red and white ocassionally. I've left it running over night and nothing happens.I read on the forum that it might be the original file, so tested it on a different pc and it worked fine. I know what Im doing with PCs but am a total novice when it comes to Linux, ubuntu or anything thing non-windows related .
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Feb 22, 2011
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Apr 6, 2011
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Feb 7, 2010
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