So please specify your computerĮdit: A 'middle of the road' alternative is to install a persistent live system, but I think we can also help you get an installed system into your external drive. If you tell us more about the computer, it will be possible to give better advice, to suggest something, that is likely to work well in that computer.
How to install ubuntu from usb to hard drive Pc#
Just need a way to install Linux on a hard drive seeing as I only have a Windows PC and no flash drives or flash drives available, just an external hard drive.The method to install linux from a compressed image file works also from Windows. My main end goal here is just to install Linux to a hard drive and stick it in an old computer dedicated to run some old arcade games, which I've done previously on Linux. You could also install just Grub2 and use that to boot but if you are not knowledgeable about the Grub bootloader, this will probably create more problems for you. All this does though, is put a Live CD on the hard disk which is going to be read-only and you will be unable to save any changes on reboot. Probably the closest you could get it to do a hard disk install using unetbootin explained at their page below.
So in your case, without a CD/DVD drive or a flash drive or a capable bootloader, the answer is no. For the first option you need Grub2, for the second and third options, you need Grub or Grub2. You can boot a windows extracted iso from a partition on a hard drive and use it to install windows. You can boot an extracted Linux iso copied to a partition on a hard drive and use it to install. You can boot many Linux iso files directly and install to another hard drive. You don't need live media such as a CD/DVD/flash drive to install Linux.
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