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Well I’ve got a usb external hd coming in a few days, and I want to install Fedora Core 3 on it… the only problem I’ve come across in my research is getting the bios to boot from the external hd. How would I go about getting my BIOS configured to boot from an external hd, and how exactly would I install Fedora on the external hd. Thanks.
well I’ve never done this with fedora, but I’ve done it with Damn small linux.. First off you need to load your usb modules if they’re not already loaded for you and load hotplug. Once you plug in your drive make sure it comes up as /dev/sdXX(first X being a letter 2nd X being a number), then run your installer. When prompted where to install put /dev/sdXX(replacing the X’s with what the drive is, for me it’s /dev/sda1) . Then install as normal. To boot off of usb you just need to set your usb as first boot device(in my bios it’s USB-zip), if the bios can’t boot from USB you can make a boot floppy that’ll boot the usb from: http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/bootusb-0.8.img (take off the end and check the directory if that’s down).
Enjoy your linux on USB 😉
You said that in your bios it’s known as “usb-zip” well how did you configure your bios so that it would recognize the external hd as “usb-zip” ?
I didn’t do anything, it did it on it’s own, it was one of the options for the boot devices.. If you don’t get that option you have to use the boot floppy.
Ooooh. So my comp SHOULD just automatically detect the external hd, and i just choose to boot from it? (sorry for the annoying questions, it’s been a while since i’ve worked with linux! )
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