Installing/storing on a USB external drive

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:59:47AM +0800, Edward wrote:
> 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.

Make sure that you are running the current kernel
(you did not tell us what "uname -r; uname -a" returns.)

Tell us what "lsusb" returns.

A number of USB issues have been addressed post FC2 release -- pure stock
FC2 without updates had some issues.


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