Using External USB Drive for Linux Installation
Whelan, Paul
Paul.Whelan at fmr.com
Thu Dec 30 15:53:00 EST 2004
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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