You might also be interested in how to install Ubuntu 11.10 on external hard drive, with an NTFS partition at the end.īy default, Ubuntu’s installer configures two partitions – the first for /, the root directory, and the second for Swap. You may use how to install Ubuntu 11.04 on an encrypted LVM file system as a guide, if you decide to follow that route. That entails using an Alternate Installer ISO image. Note: If you are intend to use this installation for serious stuff, it is better that you encrypt the disk. The task now is to select the disk and configure the partitions for Ubuntu. The “ b” shows that it is the second disk detected by the system. If the computer you are using has only one hard disk, the external drive you are attempting to use will be detected as /dev/sd b. At the disk partitioning step, select “Something else.” Doing that and clicking on Forward will take you to the installer’s advanced partitioning tool, which you are going to use to configure the partitions for Ubuntu 11.04.
To start, connect the disk via the USB cable to any computer and boot the computer using an Ubuntu 11.04 CD or DVD. And with the USB connection, you can use it on any computer that can boot off a USB device. You can use it to clone your Ubuntu 11.04 installation that you carry along with you. At 5’x2.75′, the whole unit can fit comfortably in any pocket.
Your choice of external disk to use are many, but the one I used for this tutorial is a 2.5′ hard disk that I put in a similarly-sized hard disk enclosure.Ī 320 GB 2.5′ hard disk purchased for this tutorial cost US $45. Installing Ubuntu 11.04 or any other distribution on an external hard drive connected to a computer via USB is about the same as the method used to install it on an internal hard disk.
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