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
