External hard drive installation of Ubuntu wipes itself with every restart
So I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 from an external hard drive attached via USB to my Windows 10 machine. I boot it by using a Ubuntu USB booter and choosing the 'Linux' option from Windows' 'Advanced Restart' menu. I tried to be able to boot it on startup from the UEFI boot menu for a long time, to no avail.
It works perfectly fine except I need to resinstall everything every time I restart - I even get the 'Do you want to install/try Ubuntu' selection menu each time (though I don't need to actually install Ubuntu every time, just all the sudo apt-get stuff). Only data I've saved to the external hard drive disk persists.
Is there some configuration that will allow all of the packages I've installed in one session to remain for the next? I should mention that the external hard drive is cannibalized from an old laptop and requires a wall outlet to run, maybe that has something to do with it?
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So I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 from an external hard drive attached via USB to my Windows 10 machine. I boot it by using a Ubuntu USB booter and choosing the 'Linux' option from Windows' 'Advanced Restart' menu. I tried to be able to boot it on startup from the UEFI boot menu for a long time, to no avail.
It works perfectly fine except I need to resinstall everything every time I restart - I even get the 'Do you want to install/try Ubuntu' selection menu each time (though I don't need to actually install Ubuntu every time, just all the sudo apt-get stuff). Only data I've saved to the external hard drive disk persists.
Is there some configuration that will allow all of the packages I've installed in one session to remain for the next? I should mention that the external hard drive is cannibalized from an old laptop and requires a wall outlet to run, maybe that has something to do with it?
dual-boot hard-drive
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This means toy didn't install Ubuntu on external HDD, but copied installation iso there.
– Pilot6
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Possible duplicate of How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive?
– Pilot6
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So I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 from an external hard drive attached via USB to my Windows 10 machine. I boot it by using a Ubuntu USB booter and choosing the 'Linux' option from Windows' 'Advanced Restart' menu. I tried to be able to boot it on startup from the UEFI boot menu for a long time, to no avail.
It works perfectly fine except I need to resinstall everything every time I restart - I even get the 'Do you want to install/try Ubuntu' selection menu each time (though I don't need to actually install Ubuntu every time, just all the sudo apt-get stuff). Only data I've saved to the external hard drive disk persists.
Is there some configuration that will allow all of the packages I've installed in one session to remain for the next? I should mention that the external hard drive is cannibalized from an old laptop and requires a wall outlet to run, maybe that has something to do with it?
dual-boot hard-drive
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So I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 from an external hard drive attached via USB to my Windows 10 machine. I boot it by using a Ubuntu USB booter and choosing the 'Linux' option from Windows' 'Advanced Restart' menu. I tried to be able to boot it on startup from the UEFI boot menu for a long time, to no avail.
It works perfectly fine except I need to resinstall everything every time I restart - I even get the 'Do you want to install/try Ubuntu' selection menu each time (though I don't need to actually install Ubuntu every time, just all the sudo apt-get stuff). Only data I've saved to the external hard drive disk persists.
Is there some configuration that will allow all of the packages I've installed in one session to remain for the next? I should mention that the external hard drive is cannibalized from an old laptop and requires a wall outlet to run, maybe that has something to do with it?
dual-boot hard-drive
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This means toy didn't install Ubuntu on external HDD, but copied installation iso there.
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
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Possible duplicate of How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive?
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
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This means toy didn't install Ubuntu on external HDD, but copied installation iso there.
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
2
Possible duplicate of How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive?
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
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This means toy didn't install Ubuntu on external HDD, but copied installation iso there.
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
This means toy didn't install Ubuntu on external HDD, but copied installation iso there.
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
2
2
Possible duplicate of How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive?
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
Possible duplicate of How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive?
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
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This means toy didn't install Ubuntu on external HDD, but copied installation iso there.
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
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Possible duplicate of How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive?
– Pilot6
10 hours ago