On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:14:57PM -0500, Shane C Branch wrote: > A coworker asked my advice on the following scenario: > > >here's what i want to do - i have a USB Hard Drive, and i want to install > >linux on there, and be able to boot directly to the drive and actually run > >linux from the external drive via USB. the idea is to have a 'system > on an > >external disk' that i could plug into any system with USB and BIOS support > >for booting to USB, and use that system as a dummy terminal. > > >i've managed to install Red Hat 7.3 onto the drive, but when i boot to it, > >it loads the kernel and chokes when trying to mount the root file system. > >i think it has something to do with the USB drivers not being compiled > >directly into the kernel. but i'm not sure. > > It seems installing to the USB drive is possible, he just has the kernel > hiccup mentioned above. So if any of you have advice on how to solve > that part, that would be great. > > As far as moving the drive from one machine to another as the system > drive, I think is would be difficult if not impossible. Has anyone tried it?
If you do get this working, please consider writing it up for the Linux Documentation Project (http://www.tldp.org/). I think it would make an excellent HOWTO. Thanks -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley / \ No M$ Word docs in email
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