installing to external USB drive: FC5 any better?

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Like many others, I've been struggling to get FC4
installed onto an external USB drive.  This seems like
it would be a great method to recommend for people who
want to test the linux waters without touching their
windows installs.... if some major distro would make
it work!

After following the impressive instructions at
http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk to create & tweak a new
initrd image, I'm still seeing nothing but kernel
panics.

Now, it's my understanding so far that this could all
be avoided if the default initrd image used for the
standard install would just include the proper
modules.  Or maybe it could add those libraries to the
image if it was determined in the DiskDruid
parititioning step that I'm installing to an external
device.

Does anyone know if this change is being included (or
considered) for the upcoming release of FC5?  Would
fixing this be significantly harder than it sounds?

Also, just to be sure... I've seen a few (apparently
untested) suggestions that it might be possible to
avoid the initrd mess if I were to specifying some
kernel parameters during the normal install.  Is there
any truth to that?

I really think it's in everyone's best interests to
find some kind of real solution here. (preferably
soon)

 - Michael


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