FC4 install to external hard drive

[Jonathan Berry]

On 6/15/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 23:00 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I recently got an external HD (enclosure + internal disk).  I've been
> > wanting to try installing to the external drive to see how it works,
> > so I thought I'd try with FC4.  I get to Disk Druid and it will only
> > show my internal HD on my laptop.  The external HD is very much
> > visible to the system as I can do an fdisk -l from the shell and see
> > it there.  I have to tell DD where to install, though, so how can I
> > get DD to see (or show) the external HD?  Anyone have any ideas?  And
> > let's try to avoid flames about the relative merits of DD and fdisk :
> > ).  The disk is fully partitioned and all, I just need to tell Fedora
> > where to install itself.
> > This is FC4 x86_64 for the record.
> 
> Is this a USB drive? The URL below has a link to a PDF about installing
> FC3 on an external USB disk; the same procedure may work/be needed for
> FC4 (never tried it, don't know for sure):
> 
> http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/
> 
> Paul.

Hi Paul,

Yes, it is a USB hard drive.  Yeah, I had seen that link before, but
hadn't really looked at it that hard.  Looks like you have to install
with the "linux expert" flag to be given the option of installing on
an external (USB) hard drive.  Now the question is, why is this not
mentioned somewhere like the help menus or release notes or
installation notes or something.  Even experts need *some* sort of
documentation : ).

Thanks,
Jonathan