Install Linux Safely to an External Drive

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  • Опубликовано: 15 дек 2024

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  • @anarita-15
    @anarita-15 4 года назад +5

    Tom this video was just in time as I was thinking of buying a cheap laptop for my home daycare business to search for activities for the kids and browse for places to go for field trips and to write development reports of the kids for the parents and to schedule parents meetings and to do my inventory list of supplies needed such food, toys, cleaning supplies, and hygiene supplies, etc so it separate from my personal laptop and after watching this video I don't need a new laptop just a 3.0 USB flash drive and install Linux Mint just like you did to be secure and bingo bob is your uncle I am so happy because now I have USB flash for my home daycare business and one for my banking and financial stuff I feel so organize that my OCD is proud of me LOL THANKS Tom :)

  • @1300miles
    @1300miles 3 года назад +2

    It's important to tick the "Enable EFI" box if you're on a machine with UEFI BIOS. The machine I'm on right now will only recognize one of my monitors if legacy boot mode is enabled. Great video man. This was so much easier/safer than installing from one USB to another. Thanks. Subscribed.

  • @toast99bubbles
    @toast99bubbles 3 года назад +1

    I was using a Linux Format cover disc that contained Mint 19.3 and wanted to install it on an old 2TB internal drive I have in an external enclosure using my Mac, to replace the internal 512GB drive in a Linux machine I got not long ago. Followed this tutorial, but using the cover disc as the disc image and it worked perfectly. All I need to do now is install the drive in the place of the 512GB one in the pc and it will hopefully boot up. Thanks for walking me through this. New to Linux, but not new to messing with VMs (mostly for Windows and Mac stuff), so it was mostly stuff I kinda knew anyway, but you presented it in a way that was easy enough to follow along.

    • @toast99bubbles
      @toast99bubbles 3 года назад

      The pc didn't find a bootable drive. Ah well, that's a problem for future me to solve. Present me needs to sleep.

  • @sinrock85
    @sinrock85 4 года назад +11

    Going to put Linux cinnamon on a Samsung T7 usb ssd, can’t wait to run it! Two more days waiting on shipping!! I’ll let ya know how it goes brother! 👍

    • @sinrock85
      @sinrock85 3 года назад +8

      Best thing I’ve ever done with my computer setups!

    • @Mr-E.
      @Mr-E. 3 года назад

      Hi Michael, I am doing the exact same thing (same T7) and Linux Cinnamon. Hopefully it works out for me like it did for you!

  • @billgrey
    @billgrey 4 года назад +5

    Fantastic! Exactly what I've been wishing for! Thanks, man.

  • @lethallawnmower5301
    @lethallawnmower5301 4 года назад +3

    Thank you so much I’ve been looking for a video like this for the past few days

    • @lethallawnmower5301
      @lethallawnmower5301 4 года назад

      Just did it right now and I successfully got to install to a thumb drive. Running it across my laptop and my main computer which both have windows

  • @sleepyeyesvince
    @sleepyeyesvince 4 года назад +5

    Love this method of carrying your own "computer" around with you. Been doing this for a while. Some caveats to be careful of - you should decide if you want the install to USB to be UEFI or Legacy/BIOS mode (which you can install either way with VirtualBox). This depends on your 'target' system you will be intending to use your new drive on and whether the setting can be changed or not in your BIOS. I'd also suggest going into /etc/fstab in your new USB install and adding "noatime" as an option. This reduces the writes to the USB, and hence improves it's life. I've killed some USB drives doing this otherwise.

    • @sleepyeyesvince
      @sleepyeyesvince 4 года назад +3

      @Guillermo Torres In order for VirtualBox to boot into UEFI, you need to make sure the setting is on (it is off by default). You should find it in the settings of your VM -> System -> Motherboard tab -> Enable EFI

  • @polygonstorm4467
    @polygonstorm4467 3 года назад +1

    Is that VNC (I'm guessing that stands for Virtual Network Computing) at 2:00 also required for this installation? Also when creating a new machine, in VirtualBox, I need to specify a machine folder ==> would this be the USB? This isn't asked in the VBox in this video?

  • @TheVishnu3333
    @TheVishnu3333 4 года назад +1

    Excellent and wholesome guide. I have been looking for how to do it in a safe way and was losing hope. Thank you for making this video. I tested it and I am able to successfully install it using this method.

  • @glob2493
    @glob2493 4 года назад +3

    I'm looking for the correct words to describe this scenario so that this method doesn't get confused with what is normally referred to as "making a bootable live usb".
    Correct me if I'm wrong: A "bootable live usb" usually refers to an immutable ISO-installation where the contents on the usb can't be changed.
    But the method in this video will create a bootable usb where you can actually install new programs and use the usb as a normal hard-drive for storage.
    How would you express this more clearly so that the two different methods don't get confused?

  • @bobbond4459
    @bobbond4459 3 года назад +4

    I was under the impression that this video, per its title, was going to explain how to install Linux for a user that does not have Linux installed yet at all. I noticed that you already have it installed and reinstalling it on an external device. That did not help me at all. I am running running a dual boot with macOS and Windows 10 via Bootcamp and wanted to install Lunix via an external device via either macOS or WIndows 10. For a newbee like me, how can I get there?

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  3 года назад +2

      ruclips.net/video/nn4T6LclEek/видео.html

    • @imlosoo
      @imlosoo 3 года назад +1

      Happy I continued to scroll down until I found this!

  • @UCfvFxl5fVfTuA9DH353dJzQ
    @UCfvFxl5fVfTuA9DH353dJzQ 5 месяцев назад +1

    Worked for my Mint, thank you!

  • @Jorge-Moreno
    @Jorge-Moreno 4 года назад +9

    Hi.
    Can I do the same with two pendrives? One with the operating system and the other one to install the OS, instead of using a virtual machine?

    • @geraldcragg9313
      @geraldcragg9313 4 года назад +3

      yes...!!! be careful of the Primary drive though...!!! I'd remove it to be safe...

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  4 года назад +6

      yes, but you have to be aware that if you have another hard drive in the computer, GRUB is installed on that HD and not on the USB drive.

    • @Jorge-Moreno
      @Jorge-Moreno 4 года назад +2

      Ok, thank you very much!!

    • @TheCocoaDaddy
      @TheCocoaDaddy 4 года назад +2

      I'm about to try this, myself! :) We'll see how it goes.

    • @TheCocoaDaddy
      @TheCocoaDaddy 4 года назад

      @@SwitchedtoLinux Thanks for mentioning this. I think/thought there's a way to install GRUB on the hard drive Linux is being installed on but I'll definitely keep this in mind.

  • @lualgomo3920
    @lualgomo3920 3 года назад +3

    BIOS won't detect the instalation :(

  • @harshphysik
    @harshphysik 3 года назад +1

    How do we install Linux Mint on hybrid memory laptop ie OS on ssd & data on HDD. Its hp 15 machine.

  • @TheBrimurray
    @TheBrimurray 4 года назад +1

    Great little video explaining the method used to create a "portable" Linux OS. Thank you Tom.

  • @aaronwithrow1910
    @aaronwithrow1910 3 года назад +1

    I keep getting you have 0.0 bytes free to install linux on my external hard drive how do i fix this? i have tried to adjust the partitions to formatted and unformatted and keeps showing same message please help thank you

  • @hannanhanid
    @hannanhanid 4 года назад +5

    yes I always wanted to do this this is perfect thanks

  • @nealfugaterealtor7255
    @nealfugaterealtor7255 4 года назад +2

    I'm new to virutalbox and linux and decided to give this method a try- I followed directions exactly and keep getting this failure notice during the installation:
    "Failed to create a file system- The ext4 file system creation in partition #5 of SCSI4 (0.0.0) (sda) failed."
    I've been looking and looking and looking for some kind of answer - and have not found a way to resolve this error. I've double and triple checked my Virtual Machine setup and have it exactly like the one in the video. Tried differed USB drives and versions of Cinnamon and nothing- still getting roadblocked during setup.
    Anyone out there know how to fix this?

    • @Mr-E.
      @Mr-E. 3 года назад

      Hi Neal, did you ever figure out a solution for the "Failed to create a file system" ?

  • @gasun1274
    @gasun1274 3 года назад +1

    it's pretty much impossible for me to wipe my hard drive because my fedora live boot doesn't even detect any storage devices other than the usb stick it's booting from

  • @SteveMacLellan
    @SteveMacLellan Год назад +1

    Ran across the tutorial today. Doesn't work for me. I get an error message:
    Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
    The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Please reinstall virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing
    'modprobe vboxdrv'
    Not sure what this means. I was able to install and run two other OS from iso files last week. Not sure why I'm getting the error, but if VB works for two other OS's, I doubt it's the problem.

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  Год назад +1

      It sounds like you are trying to do an install through VBox. If that is the case you will need to install the Vbox exensions and that should clear up the errors. All those errors are virtualbox specific errors.

  • @rayzer1981
    @rayzer1981 4 года назад +1

    i use the 2 usb method, point one to the other then update grub on the host machine before booting into it. doesnt seem to boot when restarted so shutdown instead otherwise you may get a load kernel error. ive also managed to dual boot on external using this method which is pretty cool. currently got kde neon and mint xfce external and peppermint is the host os.

  • @spinoboying
    @spinoboying 4 года назад +1

    i want to ask, ive 2 drives in my laptop. SSD and HDD. i use my SSD 256gb to store my ubuntu. how i can installed software in my HDD?

  • @null3667
    @null3667 Год назад +1

    How do I format it?

  • @faithbpotts
    @faithbpotts 4 года назад +2

    Hello I need this because I have a 3 weeks class activity at internet society this November 10. Thank you.

  • @pianokeyjoe
    @pianokeyjoe 4 года назад +2

    On a slightly unrelated topic: Tom? Where did you buy that tiny flash disk?? The Walmart in Washington PA does NOT sell those! We only have the bigger ones and not that tiny looking one. I had to buy one on EBAY but that gets old when I want to go to the store today and buy one today to use TODAY. Can you tell us what store you bought it from? Those nano sized USB drives are nice as they do not stick out of the computer possibly getting bumped or broken.

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  4 года назад +2

      I grabbed it at BestBuy this afternoon. 32 were $7, 64 $10

    • @pianokeyjoe
      @pianokeyjoe 4 года назад +1

      @@SwitchedtoLinux Thankyou for letting me know. So South Hills trip it is! Thankyou!

  • @DTechDive
    @DTechDive 3 года назад

    Man I have Internet issues. I tried this menthol but my linux mint connects to wifi but internet doesn't work

  • @nicegy0197
    @nicegy0197 4 года назад +4

    Question: If I want to run virtual machines from the newly made Linux drive is the performance going to be good or would it be better to use a USB hard drive instead of the flash drive?

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  4 года назад +2

      In general a USB hard drive is way better. Flash drives die sooner.

  • @marshallhyasi6213
    @marshallhyasi6213 4 года назад +1

    Guys Format your USB to FAT32 before you start following this video
    If you do not see the option "boot from usb" in your boot menu Then go to your bios and activate Legacy mode and gor the legacy set the priority to USB Duskette.
    now restart and go to your boot menu and it should show " boot from usb diskette"
    note : I use hp laptop.
    Also if your Virtualbox only gives you options for linux x32 Then you have to enable virtualization from your Bios.
    Also for my laptop in the bios I should change the USB 3.0 from Enabled to AUTO.

  • @electricalbatross5797
    @electricalbatross5797 4 года назад +2

    Can you do another tutorial like this where you install Linux to multiple flash drives in a RAID 0?

  • @ryandunsoncfe9563
    @ryandunsoncfe9563 4 года назад +1

    Nicely done! Thanks for the information.

  • @krimsonbun
    @krimsonbun 2 года назад

    I have a 2.0 usb external hard drive with 2tb, what can I do?

  • @angelgabrielortiz-rodrigue2937
    @angelgabrielortiz-rodrigue2937 3 года назад

    When I go to install the OS on the VM, I get an error that my machine has “0.0B” of memory. I set it up exactly like in the video

  • @chillbro2275
    @chillbro2275 3 года назад +1

    When you formatted the drive, did you just create a new partition table with GParted, then proceeded to the installation wizard?

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  3 года назад

      Usually the distro will handle the drive partitioning unless you are doing something advanced.

  • @leogomez4192
    @leogomez4192 Год назад +1

    How did you format the drive to act as an internal disk?

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  Год назад

      On Linux, you can install to any drive. No extra formatting needed.

  • @akmt123
    @akmt123 Год назад +1

    HELP!!! After seeing your Video I want to install Linux Mint Cinnamon on my 700 GB EXTERNAL HD, and, then remove it from the other 3 PCs.....then take the 700GB external HD and use it with either Windows 10, 7 or the XP PC. Will it automatically boot to Linux and still give me the Dual Mode Screen option?

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  Год назад +1

      To install it on an external drive you plan to move around to different computers, make sure that the bootloader is installed onto the drive, then on the computers, you will either set the boot order to boot the USD drive first, or you will need to access the one time boot menu when you want to run Linux mint.

    • @akmt123
      @akmt123 Год назад

      @@SwitchedtoLinux HI, all ok but the 700 GB external HD now shows up as VLI string.....how can I mount it again?

  • @barabrainrot
    @barabrainrot Год назад +1

    hiiii what usb drive are you using? mine seems to slow to the point of being unusable

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  Год назад

      Make sure you are using a USB 3.0 or higher in a port that supports higher speeds.

  • @d4rkkn16ht
    @d4rkkn16ht 4 года назад

    I have a question...How to install Linux Mint into an external HDD/SSD WITH Linux Mint installer in it, so I can install Linux MInt on other computer & also use this HDD/SSD for work?

  • @arctis_shark
    @arctis_shark 3 года назад

    Great video! Going to try this tomorrow.

  • @vfletes1
    @vfletes1 4 года назад +1

    Good to see another great video... That a side i can never get any distro to be bootable from a usb or external drive i mean never... I always just end up buying from someone else already done.

    • @motoryzen
      @motoryzen 4 года назад +2

      Here's an easy way to finally resolve that problem.
      From within windows. Take ANY size thumb drive ( OR even an ssd), use AOMEI partition assistant ( and yes..there is a free option and yes that is what I'm talking about and it works..every time), - because stupid windows built in partition manager and cmd prompt refuse to format any drive that is beyond a certain total size in fat32.. - to partition that installation media drive to fat32
      When that completes, just copy and paste whatever distro ( in this case I'm using mint 20 cinnamon) into that drive. Finally right click that iso file and select " extract here".
      NOW it's bootable. YEs..unnetbootin and a few others work..but my idea is simpler and works regardless of the storage drive's total capacity.
      The only part you'll need to experiment with is whether you choose legacy thumb drive/ssd or UEFI thumb drive/ssd selection in the boot menu ( be it the separate fwhatever hotkey or within the boot menu selection in your Setup/Bios/uefi. ONE Of these will work.
      And btw...You can connect that ssd you just made into a linux installation media..internally just like any other storage drive you want to install linux to. Yes...the install hauls ass ( sub 5 minutes guaranteed)
      REMEMBER - though, don't select " restart now" when mint cinnamon finishes installing. Choose the other option talking about experimenting more so that way you can manually power off the pc, and take all the time you need to remove the installation media, then power it back on, select the drive you installed Mint into as the first boot drive, f10 ( chances are) to save and exit, and the machine should reboot and boot straight into the Mint desktop in less than 22 seconds worst case if ssd ( if hdd..maybe longer)
      ----Regardless PLEASE..., I recommend NOT installing LInux into the same storage drive that Windows is already installed into. Spare your sanity. WIndows mbr and grub were never meant to play together. Keep it simple, keep the two os worlds separate with the only exception being another storage drive you can use ( formated to exFat of course) to manually transfer backup files to and from the windows and linux installations as needed to take baby steps on swimming in the LInux pool and see how things work in a sensible way. ---
      Timeshift is your friend...learn it first.
      Need more help getting stuff set up or going or perhaps resolve some little problems? Let me know. I'm no expert, but Mint 20 cinnamon is now my 100% daily driver..no more windows for this taco eating moto riding Linux user.
      Chris Titus Tech
      Joe Collins
      TLG
      Level1Techs forums
      LinusTechTips forums
      And yes..even this guy Tom from SwitchedToLinux are all good sources of help
      Cheers

  • @zeta8745
    @zeta8745 4 года назад +1

    Does this work with an external ssd?

  • @busterj11776
    @busterj11776 4 года назад +2

    Excellent, as usual...thanks

  • @Tailslol
    @Tailslol 4 года назад +1

    it is what i do,linking a usb to a vm ware machine that has no hard drive set up to make "portable " machines.
    my wd element disk worked well for it.

    • @longnamedude3947
      @longnamedude3947 4 года назад +1

      Could you explain what you did in more detail?
      I'm greatly interested in your concept (if I understand it correctly) and would love for you to explain in more detail exactly what you mean and what you did.
      Many thanks :)

    • @Tailslol
      @Tailslol 4 года назад +1

      @@longnamedude3947 basically the same thing as he did in the video but i used windows and vm ware to make a linux install on usb

  • @sharmiladeo4938
    @sharmiladeo4938 3 года назад

    This thing saved my pc's life !

  • @hackercop
    @hackercop 3 года назад +1

    Thank you so much this was really helpful for me!

  • @dario7489
    @dario7489 3 года назад +1

    I get an error saying I only have 8.1GB space and it needs 8.6 GB. I have more than enough space what is happening?😭

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  3 года назад

      You need to use a minimum of 16GB for many distros.

  • @PureAwareness76
    @PureAwareness76 8 месяцев назад

    Lovely😍
    Sorry, the Virtual Box was only for installing the Linux, or is it running on the USB (SSD)?
    Thnx

    • @Walter_Berg
      @Walter_Berg 6 месяцев назад

      Only for installing

  • @chrisroberts5747
    @chrisroberts5747 2 года назад

    Thanks for great tutorial. I was able to get a working copy of Linux on my laptop. I tried Ubuntu and also Elementary OS. For the latter, I tried something different though. I did a full install to virtual box first, then I did a DD copy from the virtual disk to the USB stick.
    There is one thing I haven't been able to figure out yet, and that is making it boot automatically. I can hit F9, and boot the USB with the BIOS/EFI boot menu... but it doesn't just do it automatically (even though USB is moved up higher in the priority list on the boot order). It would be nice if I could just plug it in and turn it on, but it's not a huge problem

  • @berkayozerbay6155
    @berkayozerbay6155 4 года назад

    should we use this external hard disk only for linux usage or can we store another files in it?

  • @yusraf.211
    @yusraf.211 3 года назад

    When he said 'eeyo windows', I felt that.

  • @TheCocoaDaddy
    @TheCocoaDaddy 4 года назад

    Great video! Thanks for posting!

  • @famelitegamer3317
    @famelitegamer3317 4 года назад

    After how do i connect to internet?

  • @thewayoflife_
    @thewayoflife_ Год назад

    Does the same method work with an external hard drive?

  • @technologyman101
    @technologyman101 4 года назад +2

    I do the same thing, but I enable EFI in VirtualBox.

    • @gurisler3622
      @gurisler3622 3 года назад

      Anything else to do while booting it in any computer's bios. I did as you suggested, EFI enabled me to finalize my installation. But now can't boot with USB.

    • @technologyman101
      @technologyman101 3 года назад

      @@gurisler3622 Um you actually need to add a custom boot entry for quite a few EFI firmwares including Dell. Some of them like my old Toshiba laptop and my new System76 Meerkat can boot from these USBs without any messing around
      Btw if your distro uses GRUB, make sure it always continues boot (blue screen with options will appear on boot [from USB] until you set it up)

  • @njoroge2061
    @njoroge2061 4 года назад

    What happens when you select create hard drive.

  • @hollowknut9473
    @hollowknut9473 4 года назад

    Have you ran into any issues switching between PC’s, particularly ones with different GPU brands?

    • @lethallawnmower5301
      @lethallawnmower5301 4 года назад

      I’m going to try this out pretty soon so I will reply if anything comes up

    • @nishantshokeen4279
      @nishantshokeen4279 3 года назад

      @@lethallawnmower5301 any updates?

  • @masteroduo7469
    @masteroduo7469 3 года назад

    Thanks this was really helpful

  • @PiyushKumar-fn6fz
    @PiyushKumar-fn6fz 3 года назад

    Savior. Thanks

  • @chinmoy1955
    @chinmoy1955 2 года назад +1

    Did you forget to mention that using a pen drive to run an operating system can be quite damaging to the pen drive itself? Pen drives have a finite number of write cycle life, and this method is going to render this pen drive useless in a relatively short time. I'd rather install Linux on an external HDD. Why not a video on that? Thanks

    • @SwitchedtoLinux
      @SwitchedtoLinux  2 года назад

      I did not cover that and it is very good point that does deserve a video. Thanks for the idea and I will add that to my list of videos.

  • @motoryzen
    @motoryzen 4 года назад +1

    hehe...thumb drives. ( makes George Lopez..scoff). I install Linux Mint 20 with a ssd FOOOOO . WhaPAAA! xD

    • @motoryzen
      @motoryzen 4 года назад +1

      @John Kunai Don't be jealous because you didn't think to mix comedy in with a fact. You'll be ok.

  • @ajslashkiller5246
    @ajslashkiller5246 3 года назад

    e w w w i n d o w s
    2:17

  • @ΧρήστοςΤουμπάρης
    @ΧρήστοςΤουμπάρης 4 года назад +1

    You stole my idea :(
    I did this with Debian

  • @abduksam
    @abduksam 3 года назад

    The most easiest way