Install to external (I think) SSD

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 06:48:22 +0100, Grizzly wrote:
>30 July 2017  at 3:09, Xen wrote:
>>It would only show harddisks after it finds an appropriate bootloader
>>on them.

Hi,

I suspect it should show all attached hard disks, since a hard disk
could contain data and nothing bootable at all.

>What really surprises me is that this "seems" to have been an issue
>for a long time, and we usually have an easy(ish) solution in short
>order

People usually don't buy a new Apple computer to install Linux on it.
What some people might want to do, is installing Ubuntu on a very old
Apple computer. The iBook's architecture is 32-bit PPC, IOW it is a
very old computer. 1. I seriously doubt that you need EFI. 2. On Ubuntu
32-bit PPC architecture unlikely has got a future. This explains why
finding solutions isn't that easy. 1. A small community of Apple PPC
users. 2. If you install it today, there unlikely will be a release
upgrade available in the future.

The latest mails in the ubuntu-powerpc team mailing list archive is from
last year.

Regards,
Ralf