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@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@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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