Dark (New) on Nostr: I’m installing Ubuntu 24.10 on an external hard drive and when I go to make my ...

I’m installing Ubuntu 24.10 on an external hard drive and when I go to make my 100MB FAT32 partition for the bootloader to reside on, FAT32 isn’t one of the options that is selectable. Just Ext 2,3,4 among others. I’m trying to make a truly portable install but after several attempts I’m considering just flashing the drive with the iso and having a workable but not fully standalone installation. The guides online are just different enough from what I’m seeing during the installation process that I’m burning hours I don’t have on this. Can anyone provide any guidance? I’ve already nearly rendered the external drive I bought useless through various means of manipulating the partitions, and have spent much of the time reformatting that drive and getting it to be detectable by Windows again. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks.
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