What you might want to do is buy a USB device of at least 4Gb and install Ubuntu on that USB.
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Topic: Question about putting Linux on external hard drive (Read 1010 times)
It would be better if you could temporarely move your files to somewhere else and then install Ubuntu and copy them back, but you can probably install Ubuntu in just a part of the hard drive if that is what you want. The Ubuntu isntallation will offer you that option.
What you might want to do is buy a USB device of at least 4Gb and install Ubuntu on that USB.
Welcome to the forums
What you might want to do is buy a USB device of at least 4Gb and install Ubuntu on that USB.
Welcome to the forums
Bump... Going to repost this in technical support if no one answers here.. Can't trust that anyone will see it here.
Heard about Bitcoin like a week ago, have been doing some reading since then. Still slightly skeptical, but I think I'll bite, I've been tempted and just plain like the ideas behind
Bitcoin.
So I thought I would do it the right way from the beginning and follow the advice of a thread here and keep all my Bitcoin files on a separate Linux OS. I'm completely new to Linux, but I'm going with Ubuntu, how different could it be?
I think I know how to install it just fine on my external hard drive following these directions, but I have a couple questions... I already use that external hard drive to hold backups of a bunch of files, music, movies, etc. If I want to put Linux on that hard drive, will doing so delete/overwrite all those files? If so, can I put Linux on that hard drive, and then move all those files back over to it? Its 500 gigs, so I want to keep my Linux OS on it and all my files so I can access them on other operating systems. Can I do that?
Bitcoin.
So I thought I would do it the right way from the beginning and follow the advice of a thread here and keep all my Bitcoin files on a separate Linux OS. I'm completely new to Linux, but I'm going with Ubuntu, how different could it be?
I think I know how to install it just fine on my external hard drive following these directions, but I have a couple questions... I already use that external hard drive to hold backups of a bunch of files, music, movies, etc. If I want to put Linux on that hard drive, will doing so delete/overwrite all those files? If so, can I put Linux on that hard drive, and then move all those files back over to it? Its 500 gigs, so I want to keep my Linux OS on it and all my files so I can access them on other operating systems. Can I do that?
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