Installing to External USB Drive
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:58 am
Hi,
I have been playing around with the latest version of Mint through VirtualBox and have bene impressed, and I am now ready to install for real, but as my Laptop has no install disks for Windows I don't want to overwrite the OS or the boot sector of the machine, so what I am planning to do is connect a usb drive and install Mint on this and once everything is installed and configured I will swap the drive for the drive in the Laptop.
My question is, if I install on this drive do I need to do anything to make sure it writes the boot manager to this drive and not the internal disk, I have had a setup like this before (with Ubuntu), but I installed by swapping the disks and then swapping them back aftert the install.
Once it is installed I can change my bios settings so that if this is connected it will boot from this disk and not the internal disk.
Gavin,
I have been playing around with the latest version of Mint through VirtualBox and have bene impressed, and I am now ready to install for real, but as my Laptop has no install disks for Windows I don't want to overwrite the OS or the boot sector of the machine, so what I am planning to do is connect a usb drive and install Mint on this and once everything is installed and configured I will swap the drive for the drive in the Laptop.
My question is, if I install on this drive do I need to do anything to make sure it writes the boot manager to this drive and not the internal disk, I have had a setup like this before (with Ubuntu), but I installed by swapping the disks and then swapping them back aftert the install.
Once it is installed I can change my bios settings so that if this is connected it will boot from this disk and not the internal disk.
Gavin,