installing on USB hard disk

[Jon Drukman]

Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> Jon Drukman said the following on 04/09/2005 19:42:
> 
>> my system has several internal disks which are all formatted as NTFS.  
>> i have an external USB2 disk that i could use for fedora, if i can 
>> figure out how to boot it.  my motherboard/bios is too old to boot 
>> directly off of a USB disk.  can i use some sort of boot CD or 
>> bootmanager to start fedora from an external drive?  how would i 
>> achieve this?
>>
>> let me know, thanks.
>> -jsd-
>>
> have a look at  http://www.simonf.com/usb/
> 
> http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/
> 
> and let me know....
> It works here

i followed the instructions on the pdf at the second link and the usb 
disk does not show up when booted from the grub cdrom image so i guess 
my bios is not going to cooperate, at least not for booting.

the weird thing though is if i boot the FC4 install DVD, it says 
"loading usb storage driver" and i see the external disk flash a few 
times like it's being accessed.  however if i go to manual partition 
with disk druid, i don't see the drive.  this leads me to think that 
maybe it could work if i knew how to tell the installer to look at that 
disk.

-jsd-