On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:59:47AM +0800, Edward wrote: > Ken Wolman wrote: > > >Problem: I had been able to install "standard" Red Hat on a somewhat > >aging Celeron with a 10GB hard drive to which I added a Maxtor 40GB USB > >2.0 external drive. Partition Magic "liked" the external, too. It > >seems that whatever I'm doing wrong, Fedora 2 will not recognize that > >there is a USB 2.0 disk. > > > >I'd cleared about 125 MB on the original disk for /boot storage with the > >intention of loaded the other material on the USB disk. No such luck if > >Fedora can't seem to find the drive. > > > >What am I not doing that I should be doing? > > > >Many thanks. > > > >Ken > > It probably HAS been seen but you haven't mounted it. > > Check your /var/log/messages when you attach the drive. > > By the way, a lot of this USB stuff has been covered repeatedly - the > archives may also give you the info you need. Make sure that you are running the current kernel (you did not tell us what "uname -r; uname -a" returns.) Tell us what "lsusb" returns. A number of USB issues have been addressed post FC2 release -- pure stock FC2 without updates had some issues. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004
