Hi
I have an external hard drive, and I've been trying for 2 weeks now to install linux on it and boot.
The computers' USB ports don't work well, not stable, so I bought a new PCI USB card hoping this would fix the problem. It now installs, but doesn't boot (DISK BOOT FAILUARE).
The bios has the option to boot from USB-HDD and I selected it.
what I do: remove internal drive, boot from live cd, click the install icon, plug in the external hard drive (formated it with gpartit : swap, ext3, fat32) forward... click swap->use as swap, ext3->/, fat32->/windows) forward, advanced -> install boot loader (it has only one option:hd0, thow the disk is seen as sda), click ok, install, restart, nothing happens.
It would also be ok if I could boot the hdd with a bootable cd, but I'm new to linux, so I would need some detailed instructions on how to do that, I tried it before, folowing a tutorial, at the cost of wasting some cd-s with no success.
Thank you
I have an external hard drive, and I've been trying for 2 weeks now to install linux on it and boot.
The computers' USB ports don't work well, not stable, so I bought a new PCI USB card hoping this would fix the problem. It now installs, but doesn't boot (DISK BOOT FAILUARE).
The bios has the option to boot from USB-HDD and I selected it.
what I do: remove internal drive, boot from live cd, click the install icon, plug in the external hard drive (formated it with gpartit : swap, ext3, fat32) forward... click swap->use as swap, ext3->/, fat32->/windows) forward, advanced -> install boot loader (it has only one option:hd0, thow the disk is seen as sda), click ok, install, restart, nothing happens.
It would also be ok if I could boot the hdd with a bootable cd, but I'm new to linux, so I would need some detailed instructions on how to do that, I tried it before, folowing a tutorial, at the cost of wasting some cd-s with no success.
Thank you
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