Fedora/Linux as a USB Drive

Srikanth Konjarla srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 01:41:05 UTC 2008


I am looking to "mount" a Linux machine as a USB mass storage device 
from another Linux machine by connecting via USB.

Srikanth

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Srikanth Konjarla wrote:
>> Wondering if it is possible to access a Fedora/Linux machine as a USB
>> drive. It would be very useful to transfer files between two computers
>> without a network.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Srikanth
>>
> I am not sure what you are saking. If you want to install Fedora to
> a USB drive, and boot off that drive, this have been covered on the
> list. I believe you still need to do an expert install to be able to
> install to a USB drive, and you have to "tweak" the Grub settings,
> but it works well as long as your machine can boot off a USB drive.
> (I have a USB drive set up that way here.)
> 
> If you are talking about attaching a USB hard drive to a Linux
> machine, and transfering data to/from it, that works fine as well.
> 
> Mikkel
> 




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