Installing/storing on a USB external drive

[Edward]

Ken Wolman wrote:

> Problem: I had been able to install "standard" Red Hat on a somewhat 
> aging Celeron with a 10GB hard drive to which I added a Maxtor 40GB USB 
> 2.0 external drive.  Partition Magic "liked" the external, too.  It 
> seems that whatever I'm doing wrong, Fedora 2 will not recognize that 
> there is a USB 2.0 disk.
> 
> I'd cleared about 125 MB on the original disk for /boot storage with the 
> intention of loaded the other material on the USB disk.  No such luck if 
> Fedora can't seem to find the drive.
> 
> What am I not doing that I should be doing?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Ken

It probably HAS been seen but you haven't mounted it.

Check your /var/log/messages when you attach the drive.

By the way, a lot of this USB stuff has been covered repeatedly - the 
archives may also give you the info you need.

Regards,
Ed.