On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 10:17 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > 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. Jumping in... Usually I think you need to pass the options linux expert during the bootup of fedora. IIRC. But bear in mind that when I played with it in FC2, it can install into the USB, but can't boot from it. This is partly due to FC not putting the USB/scsi modules into the initrd. Hence you may have to hack your initrd. Search Google, I've got the link from sometime back. (Heck, I even posted it to the list) But since this is FC3, this may all just be obsolete. > > Paul. > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:23:29 up 19:25, 8 users, load average: 1.42, 1.10, 0.96
