Installing Fedora 3 on USB Hard disk;

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue May 31 09:17:16 UTC 2005


Mirco Scaramucci wrote:
> I have a USB hard drive connected via USB2 port on my Pentium IV 2.6GHZ 
> Dell Optiplex GX270
> I am tryin gto dual boot with Windows XP at the moment while awaiting 
> Fedora Core 4.
> Unfortunately Anaconda doesn't seem to be detecting my USB hard disk 
> although during initial graphical boot it does seem to be loading two 
> USB driver of which one is for USB mass storage, which would make you 
> think that it is detecting the external hard disk.
> Unfortunately when I get tothe stage of having to chooose the hard disk 
> I want to install fedora on i only get the option of the internal hard 
> drive.
> Has anyone encountered this problem before?
> Is there any thread on fedora core mailing list where this problem was 
> dealt with. I f so can anyone please send me the link to it?

There's a PDF linked from:

http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/

that will show you how to do it.

Paul.




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