Re: usb disk installations

[Jim Cornette <fct-cornette sbcglobal net>]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:57, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
> > I attempted to install FC3T1 on a USB drive using expert mode. It seems 
> > that all the proper files installed on the disk. The disk is a laptop 
> > disk contained inside a usb - ATA adapter and seems to work with the 
> > proper modeles loaded.
>
>
> You can install it.. but as far as I can tell, you won't be able to boot
> into it unless you tweak the initrd
>
>
> > Are there any plans to get the module needed to mount USB disks loaded 
> > soon enough to be able to boot from these disks.
>
>
> > My grub.conf file is in the attached file.
> >
> > There is a lot of interest in getting this concept to work.
>
>
> This concept works. I've gotten it to work. As mentioned, you need to
> get the initrd to load up the usb modules and you're all set.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Jim

Thanks for the response. It would be decent to have a ready-made setup 
that works without a lot of tweaking. But since this is a hobby, I'll 
learn in the process when attempting to get the usb drive to boot up.

I did chroot to the usb installation and do some tinkering with the USB 
installation, but that was all that I tried so far. The chrooted 
environment was educational and I learned some processes that Linux has, 
so it wasn't a total loss.

Thanks,

Jim

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