Always check that the partitioning proposal is what you want, and if you're performing a dual boot installation, pay extra attention, to make sure everything is as desired. Partitions that will be formatted are written in red text. Set the timezone here. Now it's time to create your user. Note that by default the root user administrator password will be the same as the password for the normal user.
If you want the added security of a separate root password, consider unchecking that checkbox. You may also want to consider disabling autologin to prevent people from easily accessing your system and data.
Now the actual installation is performed. When you get to the installation overview, it is necessary to modify the Boot loader settings. In this step we are going to make sure GRUB is installed on your external drive in a correct way. GRUB has it's own way of counting disks and partitions.
GRUB starts counting at 0. The first disk it counts, is the disk where it is loading from. So if we install GRUB on our external disk, it still would be the first so 0 disk. GRUB uses the following notation to indicate devices:. This file tells GRUB what the disk order is when booting. The file should look something like this in it's default setting:. Now you can delete the ata and fd lines. These are the internal disk and floppy disk.
Change the line with the usb disk to hd0 , so you get something like this:. This file is the boot menu configuration. Also the kernel command line is set in this file. Note the hdX,X entries in this file. These should be set to hd0,X. As stated above, for GRUB the first disk is the one where it's loaded from. Do not touch this file. And, because your installation system may not be loaded from this disk, the disk count is different from the next time you boot your system. These settings are only applicable during installation.
So leave them alone. Now you should see a list with only your external drive in it. Just accept it by pressing Ok. If this step is omitted, YaST may try to revert or adjust the changes you made earlier.
In the installation overview you have a summary of all the settings. Make a last check at the Partitioning and Booting system. And you can continue installing your openSUSE system. The wikis are now using the new authentication system. Jump to: navigation , search. In some cases you might want to install openSUSE on an external hard drive. In general such a drive is recognized by Linux, just like any other disk. For this reason it's not hard to do this.
This article describes some important settings you need to make during installation, to let you system boot correctly from the external disk. Tested on openSUSE. Recommended articles. Related articles. Warning: This guide tries to help you as much as possible, but use your own brains! This is advanced stuff and making a mistake in partitioning or boot loader setting can cause loss of data and operating system on the internal hard drive of your computer.
Each disk has his own unique ID, you should find similair lines in your configuration and change them accordingly. Category : SDB:Alternative installation. Create account Cancel Log in.
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