I know that there are many sources available online regarding the installation of a bootable Ubuntu on an external HDD. Many of them are difficult to translate for the computer-technical illiterate such as myself. My goal is to partition a 160GB storage device that I had lying around and I would like to install a bootable for kali linux, ubuntu, and mint, but also allocate some space on the drive that will allow me to save information -- which I guess is known as a live or persistent.
Do I partition the HDD before using the Linux USB Loader program to create the live boot file? What should be the size for each of the 3 partitions?
Is the .iso file saved on a separate partition than the profile/settings that I wish to maintain as the "persistent" data?
Are there any hazards or limitations to installing multiple bootables on one drive?
This is the allocated HDD from the terminal:
/dev/disk4s2
/dev/disk4s3
/dev/disk4s4
/dev/disk4s5
Would the install command be grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/disk4s
? If not, please explain why it is not.