usb disk installations

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:19, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 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.
Oh.. you don't really have to chroot. You just have to copy your new
initrd to the usb drive's boot directory and edit your grub.conf 

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
> 
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Ow Mun Heng
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