installing on USB hard disk

[Antonio Montagnani]

Amichai Rotman said the following on 07/09/2005 14:41:
> Don't you have a DOSTOOLS dir on the first FC4 CD?
> I don't have it here, but I remember it is quite standard to have a dir 
> with tools and images to create bootCD's and floppies.
>  
> I would also try creating the BootCD using a LiveCD distro like Knoppix.
>  
> Good luck!
> 
>  
> On 9/7/05, *Antonio Montagnani* <anto.montagnani at virgilio.it 
> <mailto:anto.montagnani at virgilio.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Jon Drukman said the following on 07/09/2005 07:17:
>      > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>      >
>      >> I've done this ages ago, so pardon if this is no more
>     applicable. Try
>      >> setting on the kernel boot line : expert.
>      >> I think this was what made it also probe usb drives.
>      >
>      >
>      > that worked - it allowed me to install the OS onto the external USB
>      > drive.  however, i can't boot it.  when i boot my system i get the
>      > normal windows boot menu.
>      >
>      > my bios doesn't recognize the usb disk at all so somehow i have
>     to get a
>      > bootable cdrom with usb storage support that i can use to load linux
>      > from the external disk.  i tried following the instructions at
>      >
>      >
>      > http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/
>      >
>      > but it presumes you can actually get into a linux system to build the
>      > bootable cd, which i can't.
>      >
>      > is there any way to load linux from windows, or does someone have a
>      > pre-made boot cd with usb storage support?
>      >
>      > -jsd-
>      >
>     The first step is to burn the Iso Grub bootable CD..I hope that you
>     have
>     an ISO-capable program in Windows.
>     Then you insert the CD and boot from it.You will get the Grub window and
>     you have to follow instructions to create an usb ready initrd.
>     When you have created it, you can reboot, insert kernel and initrd
>     lines
>     manually....(maybe that standard initrd would work, try..)
>     Next you need a boot CD creation script, that is in ja's page...
> 
>     Hope it helps
> 
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  in my experience, I had to use a modified mkinitrd to build the initrd 
for USB booting from a CD.
Please take care of this point!!!

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