Qubes installer: Installing on external SSD?

[Emily]

Is there any param settings I can change to allow Qubes to be installed on an external SSD?

[fsflover]

@Emily

Qubes to be installed on an external SSD

Do you mean that qubes should be installed on an external SSD or Qubes OS?

[Emily]

@fsflover

Do you mean that qubes should be installed on an external SSD or Qubes OS?

The Qubes OS.

[fsflover]

Install whole system to an external SSD

I know, dumb topic, but is there any chance to install QubesOS to external medium, like SSD? I’ve tried just about everything to make it bootable, but no success. It just do not boot from SSD, and after QubesOS installation to SSD the computer system I installed on is no more working. My install procedure: burn QubesOS ISO to SSD/USB(using dd) and boot from it plug another external SSD and install the system to it Interesting is that the SSD boot works when I restart the QubesOS booted from …

Qubes OS Install on a 1TB SSD USB. Best configuration for two separate partitions (installation + Storage)?

For a portable QubesOS installation on a External USB 1TB highspeed (1000MBps write speed/1050MBps read speed) SSD, with a requirement to have two Luks encrypted partitions (QOS+Storage), what is the best configuration? With my current internal 256GB Nvme QOS install, I only have 80GB free space, so am being cautious with the USB install. I want to store the backups right in the storage partition for both the USB install as well as the internal install. If Qubes crashes irretrievably, I must be…

[51lieal]

Simply select external drive as installation destination should be enough.

[dracoren]

For booting from QOS installed on external HDD you need to make some changes immediately after the installation.
Check this post for the manual changes to be done in the External USB HDD for it to be bootable.

Ext4-fs Error on Qubes 4.1.1 upgrade (fresh installation) over 4.1.0 in Multiboot

INSTALLING QUBES OS ON EXTERNAL HDD (NVME, SSD OR USB STICK) - USB BOOTABLE QUBES OS - ?PORTABLE QUBES OS Install Qubes on USB External HDD (SSD/Nvme preferable) as usual. After complete installation, rebooting refuses to identify the USB device. The installed QubesOS on gparted shows 3 partitions, boot efi, 2. the boot files vmlinuz, intridram etc, 3. encrypted data partition (FROM “UEFI troubleshooting” ON QUBES DOCUMENTATION) “Boot device not recognized after installing Some firmware …

This info comes from QOS documentation, but better explained in this link.

I have the following structure.
Internal HDD1: Win10+Ubuntu
Internal HDD2: QOS411
External HDD: QOS411

While booting QOS411 from either of these, it works well if I disconnect all other external HDDs. Else, the boot menu entries keep getting botched up.

Hope this helps.