10-10-2017, 03:31 PM
Thank you both for your useful info. I have now installed LL to my external HDD but it really didn't want play. Following goldfinger's method, i got as far as 4. but Gparted refused to launch in the live session install, so exited that & partitioned it from the laptop's LL. but there were some differences from the sequence 7 to 9. creating the partition table (6.) is the same but creating the actual partitions (7 & 8 ) had to be 'added' from the 'partition' tab and 'applied' from the edit tab. Restarted the install USB but on selecting 'something else' (step 10) the installer repeatedly crashed. So i switched from my toshiba to my HP laptop (which is much higher spec) and things finally got me to the end. but even so in steps 7 & 8 it didn't like the live USB giving a 'libparted error' 'invalid partition table - recursive partition on drive /dev/sdb', fortunately it gives the option to ignore this which is what i did. Still I got there in the end & did some useful learning in the process. As you mention the drive is fairly slow on the toshiba, rather like Win 10, but is reasonable on the HP, so I have a useful extra drive. Thanks again.