* Blair Austin Bullock [Mon, 19 Jul 2004 at 11:20 -0600] > 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.
Well, sounds like the install just doesn't care to look for the sdX devices. I would try removing /dev/hdb and symlinking it to /dev/sda (or the appropriate device paths if you using devfs or something like that). That way the installer will 'see' hdb and allow you to partition and install on it, but it really just points to sda. Don't worry about b0rking your system or anything, this change to your /dev directory is only on a RAM disk for the installer program instance. It's nothing permanent. Von Fugal
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