Install 'Askmethod' support for a USB or Firewire drive ?

[William Hooper]

Kim Lux said:
> I don't know if anyone shares this sentiment, but I consider installing
> from burnt ISO CDROMs to be a slow process.
>
> I'm wondering if it is possible to use askmethod with a USB IDE drive.
> I noticed that the USB devices were detected during the FC3 install boot
> up, but that they didn't appear in the disk druid partition list, for
> example.

Hard drive installs from ISO images are already supported.  I would guess
the part that is missing is mounting the external drive.

Some bugzilla searching turns up:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118027
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117650
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105720

It looks like using passing "expert" to the installer might get you there.

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William Hooper