Installing Ubuntu in an external HD

[José Manuel Martínez Martínez]

Hi all,
This is the first time I take part in this list (I've just joined it, 
indeed). I'm a newbie in Linux so I get lost just install it.
I have a Toshiba laptop and recently bought an external 80GB HD. I 
downloaded a live cd of the 6.10 ubuntu distribution and I've installed 
it already (I created a NTFS partition, a ext3 and a swarp one. I've 
used the visual installation assistant.
It seems to work fine BUT I've discovered that I need to have my 
external HD plugged any time I switch on my computer since otherwise 
GRUB says an error has happened and so on without giving me a chance to 
choose OS. Whereas if the external HD is plugged works fine (as I said).
What I would like to do is to start my computer and have GURB working 
properly (or no GURB at all) when the external HD isn't plugged to the 
laptop, but when it is it should work.
Any idea? Please, I don't know much about linux so an explanation for 
dummies would be really wonderful.
Thank you very much!

Pitragoras

		
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