install linux on an external drive

[Michael]

here is a slight snafu.... if I dd  everything copies exactly as is. My /
and /home are on separate directories. I suppose before i reboot I would
just erase everything in fstab. I should probably do a swap file instead of
swap drive on the external.  No? How should I tell it to use the external
drive for the swap file? In fstab?

# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=b45d28c4-edc6-4f9a-a80b-144e20197cf8 none            swap    sw


no. I guess I will use a swap drive after all. So before I dd I will need
to partition the external  How do I discover the UUID that has been
assigned to the drive. so I can put it in fstab after I run dd?

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know it is attempting to load from the external because it is giving me
> some strange errors now that I have it plugged in when I restart the
> computer. I get a modprobe error and two different usb errors. Is this a
> case where I should use dd?
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I got the external drive but how do I install linux on it so I can boot
>> from it?
>>
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