How do i install qubes onto a USB drive?

[boromi...@sigaint.org]

I cant swap out my harddrive easily on my computer and its my windows
drive which qubes faq warns against dual booting with, so could anyone
tell me how to install qubes onto a USB?

[JPL]

Follow the instructions here
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/installation-guide/

You will a USB drive 6GB or larger to copy the ISO file to (unless you are burning it to a double density DVD) and a 64GB (or larger) USB 3.0 drive to install it on.

Copy the ISO to the smaller USB using dd or Rufus as per the instructions (or burn a DVD) then boot from that. Insert the large USB into a USB3.0 port. When you get to the part of the installation process where you have to decide which partition to install it to select select the 64GB (or whatever) partition, which will be your USB 3.0 drive and follow the instructions. From my experience you often have to wipe the USB 3.0 stick first or the installer will tell you it's full.

[JPL]

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[Salmiakki]

Belatedly: Note that the warnings against dual booting apply to booting from an external drive as well. It's not about things being on the same hard drive it's about programs on the other os infecting the hardware and thus compromising qubes.