Installing/storing on a USB external drive

["Ken Wolman" <kwolman sarnoff com>]

Problem: I had been able to install "standard" Red Hat on a somewhat 
aging Celeron with a 10GB hard drive to which I added a Maxtor 40GB USB 
2.0 external drive.  Partition Magic "liked" the external, too.  It 
seems that whatever I'm doing wrong, Fedora 2 will not recognize that 
there is a USB 2.0 disk.

I'd cleared about 125 MB on the original disk for /boot storage with the 
intention of loaded the other material on the USB disk.  No such luck if 
Fedora can't seem to find the drive.

What am I not doing that I should be doing?

Many thanks.

Ken