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I have access to my dad's laptop; we share it. I would like to use Ubuntu on it without affecting his machine. I don't want to dual boot since he is used to way the machine works. I have purchased an external SSD.

How can I install Ubuntu on that SSD such that when I connect the SSD to the laptop it boots in to Ubuntu and when unplugged it boots to Windows just like he is used to.

Thanks

Zanna
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It is not much different than installing on main hard disk.

  1. Connect External SSD onto your machine
  2. Connect Ubuntu installation medium onto your machine
  3. Enter BIOS, choose boot from Ubuntu installation medium
  4. In Ubuntu Installation type, choose Something else
  5. Find your external SSD on the list, look for drive other than /dev/sda. (Assuming you already had Ubuntu before)

  6. Once you found it—you can partition it, the basic Ubuntu installation contain:

    • Root partition /

    • Swap partition swap

  7. Click next --> continue.
  8. The rest steps is related to username, timezone etc.

The next time you want to boot to external SSD, just choose your SSD from BIOS boot menu. It will redirect to your external SSD, in which you can use Ubuntu from there.

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