Installing/storing on a USB external drive

[Ken Wolman]

Problem: I had been able to install "standard" Red Hat on a somewhat 
aging Celeron with a 10GB hard drive to which I added a Maxtor 40GB USB 
2.0 external drive.  Partition Magic "liked" the external, too.  It 
seems that whatever I'm doing wrong, Fedora 2 will not recognize that 
there is a USB 2.0 disk.

I'd cleared about 125 MB on the original disk for /boot storage with the 
intention of loaded the other material on the USB disk.  No such luck if 
Fedora can't seem to find the drive.

What am I not doing that I should be doing?

Many thanks.

Ken

[Edward Dekkers]

Ken Wolman wrote:
> Problem: I had been able to install "standard" Red Hat on a somewhat 
> aging Celeron with a 10GB hard drive to which I added a Maxtor 40GB USB 
> 2.0 external drive.  Partition Magic "liked" the external, too.  It 
> seems that whatever I'm doing wrong, Fedora 2 will not recognize that 
> there is a USB 2.0 disk.
>
> I'd cleared about 125 MB on the original disk for /boot storage with the 
> intention of loaded the other material on the USB disk.  No such luck if 
> Fedora can't seem to find the drive.
>
> What am I not doing that I should be doing?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Ken

It probably HAS been seen but you haven't mounted it.

Check your /var/log/messages when you attach the drive.

By the way, a lot of this USB stuff has been covered repeatedly - the 
archives may also give you the info you need.

Regards,
Ed.

[Tom Mitchell]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:59:47AM +0800, Edward wrote:
> Ken Wolman wrote:
> > Problem: I had been able to install "standard" Red Hat on a somewhat 
> > aging Celeron with a 10GB hard drive to which I added a Maxtor 40GB USB 
> > 2.0 external drive.  Partition Magic "liked" the external, too.  It 
> > seems that whatever I'm doing wrong, Fedora 2 will not recognize that 
> > there is a USB 2.0 disk.
> >
> > I'd cleared about 125 MB on the original disk for /boot storage with the 
> > intention of loaded the other material on the USB disk.  No such luck if 
> > Fedora can't seem to find the drive.
> >
> > What am I not doing that I should be doing?
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > Ken
>
> It probably HAS been seen but you haven't mounted it.
>
> Check your /var/log/messages when you attach the drive.
>
> By the way, a lot of this USB stuff has been covered repeatedly - the 
> archives may also give you the info you need.

Make sure that you are running the current kernel
(you did not tell us what "uname -r; uname -a" returns.)

Tell us what "lsusb" returns.

A number of USB issues have been addressed post FC2 release -- pure stock
FC2 without updates had some issues.