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Idea #24740: Installing Ubuntu Linux to an external USB Hard Drive

Written by todoesnormal the 5 May 10 at 23:41. Related project: Live CD installer. Status: New
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I want to install Ubuntu Linux to an external USB hard drive using the Ubuntu Live CD, but the hard disk must be portable and persistent keeping the linux file system

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Solution #1: System Configuration Profile Management
Written by todoesnormal the 5 May 10 at 23:41.
I propose to implement something similar to "System Configuration Profile Management", by which you can install ubuntu persistent and portable in hard drive without limits of size and with the linux file system. This is used in opensuse as you can see here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-suse-installation-from-linux/ and
http://en.opensuse.org/Portable_SUSE

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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 6 May 10 at 03:11
Please elaboprate:
What's wrong or incovenient or confusing about the current method of creating a Persistent USB Install (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent )?
What's different or more convenient or better about your solution?

todoesnormal wrote on the 6 May 10 at 17:13
A fully portable operating system on usb hard drive, which i can take from machine to other machine and which stores the hardware configuration profile for each of them for a faster start. Additionally, stores the operating system updates and allows me to install and uninstall programs that I want to save the persistence of these changes

With usb-creator:
# Install bootloader to USB device
# Optional persistence (all changes made to the system are saved, unlike a Live CD)
--> PROBLEM: MAX 4 GB

With Portable-Linux:
# Remember your customizations: What's more, if your distribution supports persistence, the files and settings you edit on your live Linux distribution are persisted across reboots
--> PROBLEM: MAX 4 GB

With Unetbooting
# Live Ubuntu




mandavi wrote on the 10 May 10 at 09:51
The USB-creator doesn't even show (IMHO) the hard drive - it only shows usb-drives to prevent deleting your harddisk partitions. I installed Xubuntu 8.4 on an external harddrive though (since the internal on my laptop was broken) and were able to use it on other pc's. why wouldn't it work with the current ubuntu? did you try?

todoesnormal wrote on the 25 May 10 at 01:02
Hi mandavi. I do not understand your appreciation. What happens if you want to see the hard disk partitions? Why not, if at the end of the day, someone else can do?

lazuk182 wrote on the 20 Nov 10 at 13:40
hi everyone, first to all I'm trying to put a live ubuntu not just in a USB Pendrive, I didn't know how to do it, my idea was: Make a Live USB in my 2GB Pendrive with da persistence property to save changes (configurations, some debs, etc...). Then I use my Lap with Lucid Lynx and did the next:

#fdisk -l
->shows my Pendrive(with ubuntu live USB) and Portable Hard drive.
example sdac (Pendrive) and sdb1 (Portable Hard Drive).
#dd if=....sdac of=sdb1
->It made me an exactly copy form my pendrive to my portable Hard Disk, When a boot with my hard disk is running great, but I don't think that I have to do that process to get one Live Distro in USB Hard Drive.

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