[lug] Installing Redhat on Removable Device

[Rob Riggs]

I did this many years ago with a ZIP drive.  What I had to do was 
install Red Hat on the hard disk and copy the installation to the ZIP, 
change the fstab and bootloader configuration (LILO at the time), and 
install the bootloader on the ZIP disk.  It worked.

USB is going to be different because you need to make sure the USB 
modules are installed in the initrd, and loaded during the boot 
process.  I'm not sure the boot loader knows how to do this.  You might 
try adding "alias scsi_hostadapter usb-storage" to your 
/etc/modules.conf and see if that works.

-Rob

Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:

>Oops--I posted this without a subject line.
>
>On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 at 10:28 -0600, Dhruva B. Reddy soliloquized thusly:
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>We are trying to install Redhat 9.0 on a USB drive (the point is to have
>>Linux installed on a drive that can be shared between machines at the
>>office and at home).
>>
>>Booting from a USB device is not a problem--the BIOS does support this.
>>
>>The problem is that the Redhat installer does not seem to pick up the
>>USB drive (when it comes time to partition and format the disk).
>>
>>Has anyone done this succesfully?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-d
>>    
>>
>_______________________________________________
>Web Page:  http://lug.boulder.co.us
>Mailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lug
>Join us on IRC: lug.boulder.co.us port=6667 channel=#colug
>  
>