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- #INSTALL LINUX ON USB HARD DRIVE FROM WINDOWS INSTALL#
- #INSTALL LINUX ON USB HARD DRIVE FROM WINDOWS WINDOWS 10#
Go into the VM settings and enable EFI support (Under System > Enable EFI).Scroll down a little bit to the Download section and click on Rufus Portable link as marked in the screenshot below. First go to the official website of Rufus at and you should see the following window. Do not add a virtual harddisk, as we will be mounting the external HDD into the VM to act as the disk From Windows, Rufus can be used to make a Linux Mint 19 bootable USB drive.Create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox.Download your linux distribution of choice.If your host operating system is Linux, make sure your user is in the vboxusers group using sudo usermod -aG vboxusers $USER, make sure to reboot to refresh the groups.This is needed to connect USB2 and USB3 drives to the virtual machine.
#INSTALL LINUX ON USB HARD DRIVE FROM WINDOWS INSTALL#
#INSTALL LINUX ON USB HARD DRIVE FROM WINDOWS WINDOWS 10#
Format USB before creating Windows 10 Bootable USB. Connect and mount the drive to the Ubuntu computer. In the Disks tool, make sure to select your USB drive and hit format. You have to use this tool to format the USB key. To do a UEFI install, the install disk must also be in UEFI mode (if its not, it will not install a UEFI version of linux). In Ubuntu, press Super key (Windows key) and search for ‘Disks’. To make a UEFI Linux install bootable, the drive must have a EFI boot partition, which is a FAT32 formatted partition that is at least 200MB big. Newer computers, such as my Macbook, uses UEFI (which is the successor to EFI) which requires some more
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These are all methods of booting an operating system.īIOS is the legacy boot mode found on older computers. I didn't find a nice method of doing it online, so I found my own way.īefore going over the instructions, I'll touch base on the difference between BIOS, EFI and UEFI. I wanted to install Linux on a portable SSD I had and make it bootable from my Macbook, so it needed UEFI support. Installing Linux on an External HDD Published