Pierre wrote:on a different angle - is it possible to install to the hdd,
but put the boot files onto a pen drive?.
& boot from that ?.
That should work. Ive never tried with my /boot partition on a different drive but i dont see why it wouldnt work. During the partitiong stage choose the manual option. Make a small partition on the pen drive. 200MB should do. Set the mount point as /boot. Check the box to make it bootable as well. Then partition you main disk as you normally would. You need at least 1 partition on that disk mounted at / you can use seperate / and /home though if that is what you normally do. Then the boot files ( grub, the kernel, then initrd image) will all get put on the pen drive and everything else will go to the hard disk. At the end of the install (step 7 i believe) select advanced. And choose your pen drive as the disk for grub. It will be sdX (with the X replaced with a letter) it may also be hdX with the X replaced by a number. I cant remember for sure. hd0 is the first disk (sda or hda). Use the fdisk program to find out the location of you pen drive. in terminal run
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sudo fdisk -l
So if fdisk shows the pendrive at sdb you would use either hd1 or sdb (second disk).