Install to USB enclosure?

[kmoogle]

I'm considering purchasing a USB 2.0 IDE drive enclosure. My
motherboard supports booting from USB.

Can I install FC3 to the USB drive, e.g. as /dev/sda? I'd like to have
my full FC install on a portable drive, so that I can take it with me.
I have an existing OS on my main desktop that I don't have the liberty
of modifying at the moment and being able to run FC on demand would be
great.

Thank you.

[thomas cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kmoogle" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:22 PM
Subject: Install to USB enclosure?
> I'm considering purchasing a USB 2.0 IDE drive enclosure. My
> motherboard supports booting from USB.
>
> Can I install FC3 to the USB drive, e.g. as /dev/sda? I'd like to have
> my full FC install on a portable drive, so that I can take it with me.
> I have an existing OS on my main desktop that I don't have the liberty
> of modifying at the moment and being able to run FC on demand would be
> great.
>
> Thank you.

As long as your system boots from USB this should work.

Thomas

[Dr J Austin]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:22 -0600, kmoogle wrote:
> I'm considering purchasing a USB 2.0 IDE drive enclosure. My
> motherboard supports booting from USB.
>
> Can I install FC3 to the USB drive, e.g. as /dev/sda? I'd like to have
> my full FC install on a portable drive, so that I can take it with me.
> I have an existing OS on my main desktop that I don't have the liberty
> of modifying at the moment and being able to run FC on demand would be
> great.
>
> Thank you.

Hi,
    If you mean "install" the easy way
ie from distribution DVD or CD's then the answer is NO !!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147256

If you mean "copying" from an existing disk,
hacking initrd, fstab, grub, ... by hand then yes !!!!

Try
http://simonf.com/usb/

as a starter.

Good luck !

Cheers John