I have a superfast 500gb external SSD so I want to install ubuntu on that. First I downloaded Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS ISO and created a bootable pendrive using rufus on a 8gb thumb drive. Then booted from the thumb drive. It says It is TRY NOW. I have to click on the install icon on the desktop to install the full Ubuntu. So I made 4 partitions on the 500gb external ssd(/dev/sda) using gparted =
- a 100MB fat32 system efi partition(/dev/sda1),
- an 2GB linux swap partition(/dev/sda2),
- a 200gb main or root ext4 partition(/dev/sda3)
- and a another 250 gb fat32 partition for my own storage.
Then I clicked the Install button on the desktop and selected the installation type to something else (because I have windows10 preloaded and not want to delete windows10.) after that I followed the 58bits.com's blog I'm putting it below:
Double click on the 100MB fat32 system efi partition we created (/dev/sda1)and choose ‘Use as EFI system partition’ but do not format the partition.
Double click on the /dev/sda2 partition and choose ‘Use as swap area’.
Then double click on the /dev/sda3 partition - and choose use as 'Ext4 journaling file system’, and set the mount point to / or root, and again do not format this partition.
Lastly - select the ‘Device for boot loader installations:’ to the name of the device for your external hard drive
Then I installed Ubuntu on my external ssd(/dev/sda).
After all that it created a dual boot. It means I can boot my ex.ssd to that only laptop.
This is not that I want, I want to plug the ex.ssd to any pc in the world and just run Ubuntu and open my own documents and applications and after my work done I can unplug it. Like the "Try Now" of Ubuntu.
I know Linux is fully customisable so there must a way to do that.
