Installation on externnal SSD

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I planed to install fedora on an external SSD.
Because the internal disk of the laptop is currently not visible by fedora
live, I planed to make the external SSD bootable.
I guess that it can be done via grub2.
Is there any thing special that I need to be warmed up?

Thanks

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[Samuel Sieb]

On 4/27/21 12:02 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> I planed to install fedora on an external SSD.
> Because the internal disk of the laptop is currently not visible by fedora
> live, I planed to make the external SSD bootable.
> I guess that it can be done via grub2.
> Is there any thing special that I need to be warmed up?

You can install to the external drive and it will be bootable, but you 
will have to select it from the BIOS/EFI boot menu.  It's unlikely that 
you can make it the default boot.

Hi.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:02:48 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote:
> I planed to install fedora on an external SSD.
> Because the internal disk of the laptop is currently not visible by fedora live

I suspect that you simply have to change in the BIOS the SATA Operation from
RAID to AHCI.

Can you check that ?

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

The current problem (I set APCI and the internal disk is recognized) is
that fedora installer does not see my external SSD.
I tried add hard drive
in custom mode.

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 Patrick DUPRÉ                                 | | email: [e-mail]
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 9:21 AM
> From: "Samuel Sieb" 
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Installation on externnal SSD
>
> On 4/27/21 12:02 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > I planed to install fedora on an external SSD.
> > Because the internal disk of the laptop is currently not visible by fedora
> > live, I planed to make the external SSD bootable.
> > I guess that it can be done via grub2.
> > Is there any thing special that I need to be warmed up?
>
> You can install to the external drive and it will be bootable, but you 
> will have to select it from the BIOS/EFI boot menu.  It's unlikely that 
> you can make it the default boot.
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[Patrick Dupre]

This is the partition table.
Could it prevent to the fedora installer to see the partitions
(actually the SSD)?

Disk /dev/sdc: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Model: Crucial X6 SSD  
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 6399BACF-A9B6-4F2F-A121-2BA9F52A4A09
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 410980367 sectors (196.0 GiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              34           32767   16.0 MiB    0C01  Microsoft reserved ...
   2           32768         1568767   750.0 MiB   0700  
   3         1568768        11808767   4.9 GiB     0700  
   4        11808768        52768767   19.5 GiB    8200  
   5        52768768        53792767   500.0 MiB   8300  
   6        53792768       360992767   146.5 GiB   8300  root
   7       360992768       565792767   97.7 GiB    8300  home
> Hello,
>
> The current problem (I set APCI and the internal disk is recognized) is
> that fedora installer does not see my external SSD.
> I tried add hard drive
> in custom mode.
>
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>  Patrick DUPRÉ                                 | | email: [e-mail]
>  Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
>  9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
>  Tel: [phone]                    | | Room# D114A
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> > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 9:21 AM
> > From: "Samuel Sieb" 
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: Installation on externnal SSD
> >
> > On 4/27/21 12:02 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > > I planed to install fedora on an external SSD.
> > > Because the internal disk of the laptop is currently not visible by fedora
> > > live, I planed to make the external SSD bootable.
> > > I guess that it can be done via grub2.
> > > Is there any thing special that I need to be warmed up?
> >
> > You can install to the external drive and it will be bootable, but you 
> > will have to select it from the BIOS/EFI boot menu.  It's unlikely that 
> > you can make it the default boot.
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[Samuel Sieb]

On 2021-04-27 1:13 a.m., Patrick Dupre wrote:
> The current problem (I set APCI and the internal disk is recognized) is
> that fedora installer does not see my external SSD.

When you go to the "Installation Destination" page, what hard drives are 
listed?
> I tried add hard drive
> in custom mode.

That's only for special types of storage.  Standard hard drives are 
automatically detected.

[Patrick Dupre]

Thanks for all the advises.

Finally, without I have an explanation, the SSD has been recognized by the
installer, and I was able to make a proper install.
> On 2021-04-27 1:13 a.m., Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > The current problem (I set APCI and the internal disk is recognized) is
> > that fedora installer does not see my external SSD.
>
> When you go to the "Installation Destination" page, what hard drives are
> listed?
> > I tried add hard drive
> > in custom mode.
>
> That's only for special types of storage.  Standard hard drives are
> automatically detected.
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