I got a 16GB Flash Drive and turned it to a bootable USB with Pen Drive Linux using the 13.04 64 bit iso. I then booted from it and went to the setup procedure and installed it on a 500 GB external hard drive with no swap space, it was completely formated. Once installed I rebooted to the external hard drive, I waited several minutes only to see no progress and only a blank screen. Please help.
-
What kind of external drive do you have? Some drives are just not bootable.– 16trohrtApr 28, 2013 at 16:41
-
Seagate 500 GB expansion drive USB 3.0– Youness N BellaApr 28, 2013 at 16:43
-
Where did you install the bootloader? When I did exactly what you did, it offered me to install the bootloader on my internal hard disk and I had to choose the correct path manually.– To DoApr 28, 2013 at 17:29
1 Answer
When you install on the external drive, the simplest way to install it would be to make two partitions. First: Make a swap
partition. This needs to be >= the amount of physical RAM you have installed to your computer. Second: Make the remaining memory an ext4
linux partition, and set it's mount point to /
. Choose the ext4 linux partition and install. Then, set your bios settings accordingly and boot into your new bootable linux drive.