On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:19, Jim Cornette wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:57, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
>>I attempted to install FC3T1 on a USB drive using expert mode. It seems
>>that all the proper files installed on the disk. The disk is a laptop
>>disk contained inside a usb - ATA adapter and seems to work with the
>>proper modeles loaded.
>
>
> You can install it.. but as far as I can tell, you won't be able to boot
> into it unless you tweak the initrd
>
>
>>Are there any plans to get the module needed to mount USB disks loaded
>>soon enough to be able to boot from these disks.
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>
>>My grub.conf file is in the attached file.
>>
>>There is a lot of interest in getting this concept to work.
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>
> This concept works. I've gotten it to work. As mentioned, you need to
> get the initrd to load up the usb modules and you're all set.
>
>>Thanks,
>>Jim
>
>
Thanks for the response. It would be decent to have a ready-made setup
that works without a lot of tweaking. But since this is a hobby, I'll
learn in the process when attempting to get the usb drive to boot up.
I did chroot to the usb installation and do some tinkering with the USB
installation, but that was all that I tried so far. The chrooted
environment was educational and I learned some processes that Linux has,
so it wasn't a total loss.
Well.. if you need more info on how to set it up.. here's 2 sites you
can try.
http://benusa.com/linux/boot.htm
http://simonf.com/usb/
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Ow Mun Heng
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