On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 03:49, Terry Sheltra wrote: > Curious question ... > > I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the > students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could > not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from > it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, > and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? > > Thanks!
There was just talk of this on the RH lists - and apparently it IS possible to do. Being that the USB HD is, in fact, an HD, it should be possible as long as the modules for the USB are loaded prior to the kernel searching for a root to mount. -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:50:01 +1100 8:50am up 18:06, 5 users, load average: 0.56, 0.28, 0.25 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | |----------------------------------------------------------------| | linux user:267497 * RH 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. -- Hans Liepmann
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