install linux on an external drive

[Michael]

well that  didn't work:( how about dd the  live disk to a pendrive?

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> okay.... I think it is a hardware issue. I plug the external drive into my
> linux box and it does not see the drive. I plug it in correctly into thw
> windows 10 box and it sees itso.... everythhing is working so far. I just
> need to burn mint onto a USB stick and everything should be good.
> Apparently the usb will burn from windows but I'll find out when everything
> is done. Or else perhaps the old hardware on my linux box has something to
> do with it..... but that box is only 6 years old!
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-10-24 08:58, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
>>
>>> NOTE! WARNING! BEWARE!!! DD will almost certainly copy the UUID from
>>> the source partition to the destination partition! I do NOT know what
>>> havoc will result when linux looks for that UUID and finds 2…. (I’d
>>> guess it takes the first one it finds
>>>
>>
>> Yes, mount goes through all the block devices probably starting with the
>> first SCSI disk.  If it's looking for a UUID and finds it on /dev/sda3,
>> that's the one it'll use, even if the same UUID is on /dev/sdb1 .  I
>> think.  IIRC, the label detection code in mount did that the last time I
>> looked at it.
>>
>> (I know about the UUID copy because I do that here at work all the
>>> time. In my case, it’s a feature. In your case, it’s a bug)
>>>
>>
>> If you know you want to have the same UUID on 2 filesystems, you can use
>> "dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdNN | grep UUID" , then pass the big hex string to the
>> -U option of mkfs when you're making the new filesystem.  Or the -U option
>> of tune2fs if you've already done mkfs and copied stuff.
>>
>> IMHO, using filesystem labels is preferable to using UUIDs in /etc/fstab
>> .  Labels can be made short and meaningful to humans, while UUIDs really
>> can't.  (OK, -U feedface-dead-beef-0000-123456789abc works, but is
>> silly.)  Distros probably go the UUID route because it's generally easy to
>> assume that UUIDs are unique, while filesystem labels may not be.
>>
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