<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garyartista@gmail.com" target="_blank">garyartista@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Liam Proven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>On 8 February 2014 17:57, Gary Kirkpatrick <<a href="mailto:garyartista@gmail.com" target="_blank">garyartista@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Oops! Sorry, I neglected to mention that I have no internal hard drive. It<br>
> cratered and instead of putting new money into somewhat damaged computer I<br>
> decided to just use the external, which has 13.10 on one petition, storage<br>
> on another. So i take it there would be no issue then?<br>
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</div>Shouldn't be.<br>
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It'd be faster if you just removed it from the case & fitted it to the<br>
PC, though.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">garyl <br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">garyk<br>
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