Using External USB Drive for Linux Installation

[Whelan, Paul]

If you bios doesn't support booting off of a USB connected device (or
firewire) then you can make a custom kernel and initrd and make a
bootable cd that you can boot from that will mount the usb/firewire
device as your root filesystem.  That's what I did.  

Thanks,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael ODonnell [mailto:michael.odonnell at comcast.net] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 11:25 AM
To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: Using External USB Drive for Linux Installation 




I wrote:
>USB-bootable distributions mentioned here:
>
>  http://distrowatch.com/
>
>...as well as being a generally decent site.


Oh.  Duh.  I wasn't paying attention and only just now
realized that you meant a USB-connected hard drive
rather than one of theose solid-state USB thingies.
As others here have already mentioned, bootability
in that case will be almost entirely a BIOS issue so
it won't matter much which distribution you use.
 
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