Installing Fedora 6 prerelease on a USB disk

[Jim Cornette]

Andrea Mastellone wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> in order to test fedora 6 I would install it on an external USB disk (my
> laptop bios support usb booting), leaving my working FC5 on internal
> disk (hda).
> 
> The problem is this: when I boot from the FC6 Prerelease DVD, even if I
> attach the USB disk drive since the computer is turned on, the installer
> does not detect the USB drive (it reports only /dev/hda available, here
> I would /dev/sda instead, at the partitioning request).
> 
> The installer does not load the modules relative to usb mass storage...
> how can I make it detect the USB drive ?
> 
> I have tried the expert option at the boot, unsuccessfully.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Andrea
> 

Using 'linux expert' will get the installer to recognize the USB drive. 
I installed the OS successfully with this mode. The problem will be 
afterwards when you want to actually boot off the disk. Fedora has not 
made provisions to automatically insert the needed USB modules into the 
kernel or initrd image.
You may want to hunt for information regarding on how to setup a booting 
system from the USB before trying to install on a USB disk.

Jim

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