Using 120gb USB Drive to Boot Linux

[Harold Hallikainen]

I've read that many Intel motherboards will boot from USB. Some day I want
to build a USB raid array!

Harold


> I bought a 120 gb USB hard drive. I plugged it in and was pleasantly
> suprised than RH 9 saw the drive (looked at dmesg) and I could easily
> mount it.
>
> I would like to install Red Hat 9 or Fedora Core 2 but neither seem to
> see the USB drive to allow Linux to be installed on it. I see that the
> install process loads a driver for the USB drive but that's about it.
>
> I would love to be able to boot directly from the USB drive or at least
> use a floppy boot disk to start Linux from the USB drive. My new laptop
> (Dec, 2003, Toshiba Satellite) doesn't seem to allow booting from a USB
> drive. (In the bios, I only see PC Card and HDD as choices.)
>
> Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Rick B.
>
>
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