On 09/12/06, monty19@ hotmail.com <monty19@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:880dece00612090433j48de7790u5082c34af32943ff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >On 08/12/06, monty19@ hotmail.com <monty19@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>I have Fedora installed on a USB drive and use it with a laptop. It works >>very well, but what I would like to be able to do is plug it into a >>desktop >>or another laptop and be able to use the same install, without having to >>completely reconfiguer the system each time I move it. I am wondering if >>there are any programs out there to save the system configurations for >>multiple hardware configurations. I tried doing some google searches but >>did not come up with anything, was wondering if anyone here knew about >>anything? > >How did you install to USB? Via regular install? IIRC that are ways to >install to USB disks so that they detect the hardware ala >Knoppix/Slax. > >Dotan Cohen Via the standard installer. It actually didn't boot properly so I had to boot off the (rescue) DVD and run mkinitrd with the options --preload scsi_mod --preload libata --preload sata_promise --preload ehci_hcd --preload usb_storage. libata and sata_promise were for it to stop complaining at boot about the partitions on the internal promise controller as they are in a RAID 0, and it was ugly during boot; not that they had to be loaded for booting off the usb disk to work. Off the subject, I have asked about having to run mkinitrd to preload the modules, because from what I understood FC6 was going to support booting off USB drives 'out of the box', but I can't remember for the life of me where I read that, and maybe it wasn't true. If it is true, it needs to be looked at... Back on subject, I think what you're talking about would be along the lines of what I am looking for. Do you know of any articles that explain the set up process, or programs that aid in the configuration? Regardless I can do some more looking around on Google based off of that info, and see what I can come up with. Thank you, Jason
Go check out the forums on the Slax site. He explains it very, very well. Dotan Cohen http://essentialinux.com/emulators.php http://what-is-what.com/what_is/virus.html
