installing second o.s. on external hard drive

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Feb 9, 2014 6:34 AM, "Gary Kirkpatrick" <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
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> >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> On 8 February 2014 17:57, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> > Oops!  Sorry, I neglected to mention that I have no internal hard
> drive.  It
> >>> > cratered and instead of putting new money into somewhat damaged
> computer I
> >>> > decided to just use the external, which has 13.10 on one petition,
> storage
> >>> > on another.  So i take it there would be no issue then?
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> >>> Shouldn't be.
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> >>> It'd be faster if you just removed it from the case & fitted it to the
> >>> PC, though.
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> >> garyl
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> > I could remove the exernal drive but we use it back up files from the
> other computer.  We would lose that capability.  We could do it with a usb
> but much slower when doing a complete backup.  We could do it via Samba but
> a bit slow too.
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> > Now something quite anticipated did happen.  I started to install from
> the usb onto the external, stopped to ask this question, but somehow ubuntu
> 14.04 was installed on the external, in the partition we use for backup.
> It boots to that partition unless I have the usb in!  However, the usb has
> been wiped completely clean!  I just reinstalled 14.04 to it.
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> > So somehow I have to put grub onto the 14.04 partition.  I have no clue
> how to do that-  grub rescue would not know to do that, would it?
>
> No but bootrepair would https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
> Click on advanced then grub options tab and select the device to install
> grub onto!
> Be sure not to purge your existing grub (it has a check box for that)
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> Note: boot-repair will boot via grml-rescue-boot (available in repos)
> without burning to cd very handy feature that should be default on all
> *buntu distros!
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> Hope this helps
>
> Pete s
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> How about if I erased the 14.04 files from the backup partition?  Or could
> I just change it in gparted from a boot partition and then use boot
> repair?    I will give that a try.  This is a spare computer so no biggie
> if I lose it all.
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Yes, thanks!


garyk
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