I wanted to do a full install of Lubuntu on a USB stick but after reading about the risk of messing up the internal drive, found the following link but it is for Ubuntu. It looks like a less risky way to get a full install onto an external drive.
Is there a similar image like this for Lubuntu that I can download? Thanks in advance.
Sudodus provides a BIOS/UEFI GRUB Template Image that can be used for Full installs as well as booting ISO files
See BIOS/UEFI Template Image for Booting ISO Files for some background.
Here is how to use it for Full installs:
Download the image: https://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/uefi-n-bios/dd_grub-boot-template-for-uefi-n-bios.img.xz
Flash dd_grub-boot-template-for-uefi-n-bios.img to a USB using Rufus, Etcher, Gnome-Disks, mkusb or etc. (Use 7zip to extract from xz if necessary).
Boot a Live USB of the Ubuntu flavour you want to install, in this case Lubuntu.
Proceed with installation and choose the Something else option.
Under Device for boot loader installation select the target USB drive.
Select the USB free space and click +, select use as Ext4, select format this partition, and Mount point = "/" then OK. (Leave a bit of space to the right if you want a Data partition).
If asked to Write previous changes... click Continue.
Confirm the only partition to be formatted is the one just created. If asked, click continue.
Select your location. click "Continue"
Insert your name, computer name, username, password and select if you want to log in automatically or require a password.
Click "Continue".
Wait until install is complete.
Copy /boot/grub/grub.cfg from sdx3 to overwrite /boot/grub/grub.cfg on sdx2.
You can add a new FAT32 or NTFS partition for data if you wish.
