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Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive

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On Friday, August 22, 2014 3:20:06 PM UTC-4, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> newbie2 wrote on 22. August 2014:
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> >
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> > I am very interested in installing Linux Ubuntu on an external hard
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> > drive. Ideally, I hope that when I plug this HD to my desktop which has
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> > Windows 7 operating system, then I can use Ubuntu to do my programming
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> > work and all my code, database mysql, Eclipse, Java etc all are
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> > installed at the external hard drive. Then I can unplug it from this
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> > desktop and plug into a laptop, I can continue my work left at
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> > Desktop. Is this possible?
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> 
> 
> I do have an Ubuntu installation on a jump drive, installed to be
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> "persistent". Every time I boot from it it takes off where I shut it
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> down. You could also have chosen to start fresh every time (you lose your
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> work unless you saved it to your Windows partition or elsewhere before
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> shut down).
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> Because USB sticks tend to die after a few years (at least mine use to do
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> this ;-) an external HD, usually plugged in via USB, will do a better job.
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> You plug in the drive, insert the installation media of your favorite
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> Linux distribution and then select the external drive for installation
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> (be careful not to accidentally wipe the Windows partition). You should
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> also set boot priority to first use USB. That's about all there is to
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> know.
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> -- 
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> Andreas
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> 
> 
> I wish my grass was emo. Then it would cut itself.

Thank you. Do you feel it is slow and painful to use?

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a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 08:11 -0700
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-22 10:37 -0500
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 17:17 +0000
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 11:06 -0700
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-22 14:30 -0500
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 19:34 +0000
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 20:16 +0000
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2014-08-22 10:08 -0800
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Andreas Kohlbach <aug14.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-22 15:20 -0400
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 12:28 -0700
      Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Andreas Kohlbach <aug14.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-22 15:41 -0400
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman.SANSPAM@outlook.com> - 2014-08-24 18:06 +0530

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