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    Booting from external ssd

    Hi Wizard, Okay thank you, nice to know, I guess my main question at the moment is how can I set what Linux sees as an "external drive", how can I set that to be my main storage location. Thanks,
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    Booting from external ssd

    Hi, Okay thanks, yea I tryed Rufus but it was the common issue where everytime I rebooted it wiped everything, how were you able to set your partitions as the root location for your /home folders? thanks,
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    Booting from external ssd

    So this is what I'm dealing with, It's on a 256gb ssd so I need a way of utilizing that as currently my FAT32 bootable partition has no space
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    Booting from external ssd

    Wow hi Chris, that was awesome, it put a smile on my face thank you. So im using Linux Mint only because that is what we use at the university labs at the moment, so my life story is that I don't want to go to the Uni labs every time I want to do my specific homework labs and assignments, I...
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    Booting from external ssd

    Hi, Thanks for your reply, so I partitioned the 256gb drive with 10gb FAT32 and the rest as ext4 for Linux, I was able to make the FAT32 partition bootable so I can now plug it in and boot to mint, and the other 240gb Ext4 partition shows up as a external drive. This is great as I can save...
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    Booting from external ssd

    Hi there, So I have a windows surface book and need to run Linux on it for university, however, im stubborn and don't want to dual boot or only run Linux by itself, instead, I have a bootable USB drive that I used to test with linux mint, when formatted with FAT32 that worked fine, however I...
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