How to install Ubuntu 12.04, booted from external HDD

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 11/30/2012 04:43 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>      I've got Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an external HDD. I have iso
> images of the installer disc on there as well.
>
>      What I'm trying ( and not finding) is how to get it setup so I can
> boot a computer from the external HDD, then run the installer so I can
> install Ubuntu onto the internall HDD of the computer....

	Or, I suppose, another way to look at it, is how to get the external 
HDD to act like an install disc.

	For this alternate, I believe I would need to use DD to write the iso 
to the drive, right? Then I could use gparted to extend the partition?

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