I tried doing as you suggested to install linux on an external USB hard drive but it did not seem to change anything. I noticed later that when I boot up to the CD that it does load drivers for a USB storage divice, so I think it recognizes the external hard drive even without doing as suggested, but I still don't see anyway to install to that hard drive. The only options I see are to partition and install to my internal hard drive. Any other suggestions that might help would be appreciated.
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:58, Blair Austin Bullock wrote: > > I am fairly new to linux and I am trying to install linux red hat 9 onto an USB > > external hard drive on a windows machine (yes my computer can boot from a USB > > port) and when booting from the installation disk and try to install the only > > option that I can find that it will give me is partitioning my internal hard > > drive and installing on there. Any help would be appreciated. > > Right after the installer boots and the GUI first displays, before > clicking on anything, try doing Ctrl-Alt-F2 (which should give you a > command prompt) and type "modprobe usb-storage." If the driver is > available, it should load and then linux should have access to the usb > drive. Press Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to the GUI. Please post what > happens when you do that. > > Michael > > > > > > Thanx > > Blair > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- > Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
