I am doing a fresh install of Ubuntu on an external hard drive so I can carry it around with me and use it on my Chromebook. (This is my first time doing ANYTHING with Linux)
I can make the USB installer from Windows and have that just fine. But, when I go into the Ubuntu setup and click 'something else' to partition my external USB 3.0 HDD things start acting up. For some reason every time I create a partition an extra little thing of free space that is 11 or 13 megabits in size keeps popping up.
In all the instructional videos I have watched this did not happen. But I kept creating partitions like the videos said. Once I was done I clicked install and it gave me a message saying that it would be a bad idea to install rn because it would not be safe so I clicked og back and looked up the message online.
It said to change my ext4 partition to xfs, so I did. Then it installed. But when I tried to boot from the hard drive it took me back to the install/try Ubuntu thing again. So I restarted again and then it gave me a select boot device black screen with white text.
