Install to external (I think) SSD

[Grizzly]

30 July 2017  at 9:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Re: Install to external (I think) S (at least in part)

>On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 06:48:22 +0100, Grizzly wrote:

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

As a Windows  & Ubuntu user that is what I would have expected, a failure to 
boot maybe but at least it should "see" the dam thing ;->)

>>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.

That was my error (I'm no Apple User), it's a new(ish) MacBook deffinatly 
64bit, 8Gb ram, the owner wants to have the advantage of Ubuntu OS (Read/Write 
to other disk formats for one) but not (really NOT) affect his Apple OS in any 
way what-so-ever, 

So to start I got him using Xenial from a live USB, but as would be expected he 
then started to make changes and want a few extras so he tried to use the 
installer to put Xenial on an SSD (following a UTube video  :-<) so he managed 
to kill the live USB (don't ask how, I cant work it out either) 

I managed to get Xenial on that same SSD and it boots on all my lappies & 
deskies but is not even seen (by boot option key?) on the MacBook