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Install Arch on a different drive

Open Thunderbottom opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Is it possible for the script to install Arch on a totally different drive than the one with macOS? This is because I'm using a 128GB SSD as my macOS boot drive, and I don't want to disturb the partitioning on that SSD. What I have instead is a 500GB HDD connected to the Mac internally alongside the SSD. So is there a way to install Arch on the HDD rather than the SSD? Thanks :)

Thunderbottom avatar Mar 10 '17 12:03 Thunderbottom

This is what my partitions look like -

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *120.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage MacintoshHD             119.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS HDD                     499.2 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS MacintoshHD            +118.8 GB   disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 D0C212F4-BCED-4E04-AE54-E4A5E215A595
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

Thunderbottom avatar Mar 10 '17 12:03 Thunderbottom