Hey everyone,
I recently got an external HD (enclosure + internal disk). I've been wanting to try installing to the external drive to see how it works, so I thought I'd try with FC4. I get to Disk Druid and it will only show my internal HD on my laptop. The external HD is very much visible to the system as I can do an fdisk -l from the shell and see it there. I have to tell DD where to install, though, so how can I get DD to see (or show) the external HD? Anyone have any ideas? And let's try to avoid flames about the relative merits of DD and fdisk : ). The disk is fully partitioned and all, I just need to tell Fedora where to install itself. This is FC4 x86_64 for the record.
Jonathan
You will need to make a new initrd (initial ramdisk) which contains ALL required drivers for USB mass storage devices. They are NOT provided by the default install bootstrap.
I did this years ago when I needed to install on a SCSI disk attached to a 1542 controller.
man makeinitrd
Then you may have to create a new boot iso with this initrd. That part sounds harder, because when I was doing it, the kernel still fit on a floppy.
Someone else may have to help you with that or try google.
Regards, Ed.
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