Since I’m using the old laptop ( it has lan too , but wifi always worked on Eos) I’d like to write this distro on a new SSD Samsung Evo running through SCSI usb adaptor. Specs : 7300hq, mx150 Nvidia, 8 GB ram , 60 Hz 1080p
Tested the live stick and it worked nicely, I have UEFI only && secure boot off.
Is the YouTube guilde good for my case ? Would the guilde they presented here work in my case?
The point is simple : both the bootloader and Linux must be on the Samsung SSD, not on Intel cuz that’s where windows 10 is.
Also, what happens if you allocate all space to root ( / ) partition and you don’t make a home partition?
This is what bugs me even more, some guildes shown that you should divide space in 2 : half for home , half for root partition…
I don’t think you need manual partitioning??
I once installed Hyprland using this same video on a 64 GB HP Pendrive with automatic partitioning. In your case, the bootloader will automatically install on the SSD, and Windows should be untouched. Just changing the boot order in the BIOS will work.
It’s actually a orico rack and an SSD I’m looking to get cuz the other one has windows 11 pe installed for my old laptop , I already have/ used the rack , I just need the new SSD
Alrighty, well , thanks for explaining, I’ll try and report back after I get the SSD ! Maybe I’ll come up with some pictures if everything works( hopefully)
This video was made for a different use case and one that I don’t like at all (install onto a USB, external) but in fact it can be applied to your case, installation in a separate but internal disk (which is much better). The same thing could be done in other ways but that is fine.
To be precise, I don’t like the presentation of the video as a persistent USB installation. That’s another thing. This is one of the normal installations with the Calamares installer where you choose an external disk.
In Garuda you don’t need to create a separate home, because this is handled as a btrfs subvolume. If you want, you can make it separate, and there are many topics in the forum suggesting how.
One way or another, the important thing is to make backups of it…
Edit:
Sorry, just read your SSD is external…
But the main aspects of my answer remain valid.
Would it be way more dangerous to do it in the other way,as the other user said: through selecting delete and selecting the SSD? ( As I uploaded the picture?)
I could let Calamares do it, but… I’m a bit sceptical about it
Both options are OK and both work (it’s standard Calamares stuff).
Personally, when disks are internal, I prefer a single EFI System Partition and take care of it only (e.g. I back that up also, just in case…), but if a disk is external USB (so you might need to use it somewhere else), an ESP there would be better.
But in the latter case, you should know and remember what you do, in case you’d need to in the future to e.g. reinstall the GRUB (you should know where to do it).
So If I understood correctly: you prefer to have everything in one place when you make Linux on a external disk ?
I had to look up what esp meant, but this is what it pointed to
I usually reinstall everything when grub has to be reinstalled ( I’m a bit bad at this) , this is why I keep backing up my data before it’s time to turn laptop off into my personal cloud space
No, I don’t use external disks anymore because I was never very happy with their performance in the past (but I’ve never spent much money on it ), but when I did, I included an ESP on them.
), but when I did, I included an ESP on them.