installing second o.s. on external hard drive

[Pete Smout]

On 09/02/14 10:47, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
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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>
>> wrote:
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>>>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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?
>>>>> Shouldn't be.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>> 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.
>>> 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)
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Pete s
>>
>> 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.
>>> garyk
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> Yes, thanks!
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> garyk
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Happy to be of some use!

Pete S
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