Thank you all for your replies. @BG405 you are correct, I’m looking to have a portable OS. Also, just to clarify, when you say
“My recommendation would be to use a USB3 to SATA adaptor and use it with a proper HDD or SSD”
you are refering to using an internal HDD or SSD externally. Correct? I don’t know of external SATA HDD/SSD but of course I could be wrong.
I appreciate the sharing of the links to the actual posts (which I did search but didn’t see). I’m going to try using
[HowTo] Install Manjaro on USB drive (with and without VirtualBox)
as it looks the easier of the three for a non-techie as myself.
I will report back, hopefully with thumbs up.
Thank you for welcoming me into your group.