installing second o.s. on external hard drive

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 8 February 2014 17:57, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Oops!  Sorry, I neglected to mention that I have no internal hard
>> drive.  It
>> > cratered and instead of putting new money into somewhat damaged
>> computer I
>> > decided to just use the external, which has 13.10 on one petition,
>> storage
>> > on another.  So i take it there would be no issue then?
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>> Shouldn't be.
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>> It'd be faster if you just removed it from the case & fitted it to the
>> PC, though.
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> garyl
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I could remove the exernal drive but we use it back up files from the other
computer.  We would lose that capability.  We could do it with a usb but
much slower when doing a complete backup.  We could do it via Samba but a
bit slow too.

Now something quite anticipated did happen.  I started to install from the
usb onto the external, stopped to ask this question, but somehow ubuntu
14.04 was installed on the external, in the partition we use for backup.
It boots to that partition unless I have the usb in!  However, the usb has
been wiped completely clean!  I just reinstalled 14.04 to it.

So somehow I have to put grub onto the 14.04 partition.  I have no clue how
to do that-  grub rescue would not know to do that, would it?  How about if
I erased the 14.04 files from the backup partition?  Or could I just change
it in gparted from a boot partition and then use boot repair?    I will
give that a try.  This is a spare computer so no biggie if I lose it all.

garyk
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