On 12/11/06, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
monty19@ hotmail.com 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?
I have done this and it works fine much of the time. In the install with FC6, it is no longer needed to mess around with adding usb support to mkinitrd--it is in there. It is, however, necessary to tell the installer to reverse the order of the drives as seen in the BIOS. This makes your USB drive hd0 and then when the computer boots off the usb, then all is well. That reverse the drives thing in the FC6 install is not described very well on screen, but it really does work. For me, there are only 2 customization questions. The video driver and the network driver. On systems that have a video card that Xorg recognizes, then I find that the system automatically changes the driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it "just works". On Intel video, for example, the "i810" driver is used, it is all good. On some Nvidia systems, the drivers do not work automatically and I have to manually fix the xorg.conf. If you have DHCP service, then all you need to do is configure the usb drive to use DHCP to get network information for ethX and then it will always work fine. I do not run NetworkManager at all, because in the past I thought it was no good, but since one person has recommended it here, I may try again. But I don't need it, as long as the DHCP server gives me what I need. In other words, this is getting easier and easier. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
