Pre-install question about the EFI partition and Refind

rastus

I haven't installed GhostBSD before. I tried to do it in a VM, but that didn't work. So I am here to ask a question in advance, regarding installation of the boot manager.

I have a USB external SSD (nvme) which I want to install Ghost on to. This SSD is a "emergency boot disk" that I already have rEFInd installed on. The rest of the disk is currently just storage space. My computer has two versions of Mint, plus Windows 11, with the Mints on one SSD and Windows on a different SSD. That's why I'm putting Ghost on an external drive. I have created a 50gb partition on it for GhostBSD. I want to continue to use rEFInd on this drive as an emergency boot manager.

So what are the prompts when I install? Should I tell it to use the current EFI partition of my external drive, and skip installing the boot manager? Or should I tell it to write over it? And can I be sure that there is no danger of writing anything to either of my current EFI's on the computer?

rastus

I started installing but can't get through the partitioning. The 'Next' button is greyed out.

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Trying to install to da0. What's going on? Do I need to remove the NTFS partition from the drive?

rastus

Never mind. I found another post regarding this issue. Unfortunately I won't be installing GhostBSD at all because it won't install in QEMU/KVM and also won't install on an external SSD. I'm disappointed.