usb expansion drive

stewshou · Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:32 pm

I have a Seagate USB expansion drive. Can I connect it to a Pi B and install Ubuntu 14 and expect it to boot into Ubuntu?

elatllat · Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:28 pm

yes, but you will still need an sdcard.
if you want ubuntu / partition to live on the HDD you will still need to keep the /boot partition on sdcard.

stewshou · Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:00 pm

Thanks. How would I get Ubuntu on the SD card as bootable?

fruitoftheloom · Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:03 pm

stewshou wrote:I have a Seagate USB expansion drive. Can I connect it to a Pi B and install Ubuntu 14 and expect it to boot into Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is only compatable with a RPi 2 B ARMv7 model:

https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/

elatllat · Mon Dec 07, 2015 11:27 pm

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /README.md Read that and if you have an old pi select raspbian which is debian which is what most of Ubuntu is.