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Subject: Using 120gb USB Drive to Boot Linux

From: rab <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 01:20:17 -0400

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I bought a 120 gb USB hard drive. I plugged it in and was pleasantly suprised than RH 9 saw the drive (looked at dmesg) and I could easily mount it.

I would like to install Red Hat 9 or Fedora Core 2 but neither seem to see the USB drive to allow Linux to be installed on it. I see that the install process loads a driver for the USB drive but that's about it.

I would love to be able to boot directly from the USB drive or at least use a floppy boot disk to start Linux from the USB drive. My new laptop (Dec, 2003, Toshiba Satellite) doesn't seem to allow booting from a USB drive. (In the bios, I only see PC Card and HDD as choices.)

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Rick B.