installing to external USB drive: FC5 any better?

[Jim Cornette]

Michael McFarland wrote:
> Like many others, I've been struggling to get FC4
> installed onto an external USB drive.  This seems like
> it would be a great method to recommend for people who
> want to test the linux waters without touching their
> windows installs.... if some major distro would make
> it work!
> 
> After following the impressive instructions at
> http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk to create & tweak a new
> initrd image, I'm still seeing nothing but kernel
> panics.
> 
> Now, it's my understanding so far that this could all
> be avoided if the default initrd image used for the
> standard install would just include the proper
> modules.  Or maybe it could add those libraries to the
> image if it was determined in the DiskDruid
> parititioning step that I'm installing to an external
> device.
> 
> Does anyone know if this change is being included (or
> considered) for the upcoming release of FC5?  Would
> fixing this be significantly harder than it sounds?
> 
> Also, just to be sure... I've seen a few (apparently
> untested) suggestions that it might be possible to
> avoid the initrd mess if I were to specifying some
> kernel parameters during the normal install.  Is there
> any truth to that?
> 
> I really think it's in everyone's best interests to
> find some kind of real solution here. (preferably
> soon)
> 
>  - Michael
> 

I'll try out FC5T3 on an HD in a usb enclosure. I do not anticipate for 
it to work yet.
Jim

-- 
Well fix that in the next (upgrade, update, patch release, service pack).