Uber N00b question: help and i'll be happy

[Xx_qwerty_xX]

Happy that i finally burned and ISO disk that actually worked -.- i ran into another problem

I want to install Kubuntu onto my USB hard disk drive and i have no clue how to set the install to it

Please help

[darkparad0x]

Re: Uber N00b question: help and i'll be happy

Personally I'm not sure but I searched a bit and I hope this helps...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=308027

[Xx_qwerty_xX]

Re: Uber N00b question: help and i'll be happy

Thank you, ii will start looking into these

[pegazuz]

Re: Uber N00b question: help and i'll be happy

Happy that i finally burned and ISO disk that actually worked -.- i ran into another problem

I want to install Kubuntu onto my USB hard disk drive and i have no clue how to set the install to it

Please help

I am running Kubuntu from a WD Passport USB hard drive and it works great. For reasons I don't understand Ubuntu wouldn't install on it despite several attempts. I tried some others too without success and then Mepis worked to partion the Hard drive and actually installed but it wouldn't boot up. Then I tried Kubuntu 6.06 and it installed fine and ran with no trouble. i don't know if you will have similar problems or not but just try the install from the live CD once it is running on your computer. Be sure though to select the external USB hard drive for the target or it will end up on an internal hard drive. The great thing about running from the external is no concern about installing any boot loader on internal hard drive, just change bios to boot from USB before the internal hard drive. Good luck!

[Xx_qwerty_xX]

Re: Uber N00b question: help and i'll be happy

I did that, but it kept ending up in a Error 18... whats an error 18?

I'm thinking it was that i used my 'lesser' computer ( it has win 98 compared to XP, so...) and the whole driver install thing, but i'm not quite certain i'm going to try to install again

BTW
i have used
*Zen Vision:M 8GB USB HDD - it does read on BIOS
*2 different computers
*Gparted
*Kubuntu live CD

[pegazuz]

Re: Uber N00b question: help and i'll be happy

I did that, but it kept ending up in a Error 18... whats an error 18?

I'm thinking it was that i used my 'lesser' computer ( it has win 98 compared to XP, so...) and the whole driver install thing, but i'm not quite certain i'm going to try to install again

BTW
i have used
*Zen Vision:M 8GB USB HDD - it does read on BIOS
*2 different computers
*Gparted
*Kubuntu live CD

I found this post elsewhere on the internet about error 18 upond booting. Did you reformat whole drive before installing?

" Hmm... well, an error 18 happens when BIOS can't boot to a cylinder too far into the disk. Old BIOS's couldn't handle disks that were too big (too big could be greater than 512 MB, or 1 GB, or others depending on the BIOS). Thus, on old computers, if the partition containing /boot is not the first partition on the drive, you often get an error 18.

When I put Linux on old computers, I usually make a little 128 Mb partition for /boot, and put it first on the disk. Then I put my ordinary parititions after that. I don't know how old a Dimension 2400 is, but if it uses an old BIOS, that's probably the reason.

More info here:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB

Scroll down to near the bottom (or search the page for "error 18".

Hope that helps."

Do you think it applies to your problem?