Re: Installing Red Hat EL 3.0 on external USB drive ( Maxtor 300 LE, 120 GB )

From: ptenisnet (ptenisnet_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/10/04


Date: 10 Oct 2004 13:11:40 -0700

Boot off of the installation CD/DVD. At the prompt, type, "linux expert".
This will load the necessary USB drivers and off you go....

karthik_grad_2004@yahoo.com (Karthik) wrote in message news:<d8880199.0409140614.1275f3e1@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> Here is the scenario. I have redhat linux 9.0 installed on my
> external usb 2 hard drive ( maxtor 300 LE ) and I am able to boot
> linux from this hard drive and use it. This works perfectly fine. Now,
> I need to overwrite my existing linux partition with Redhat EL 3.0
> because it is mandated in my institution. Hence, I tried to install(
> reinstall ) linux on the external hard drive thru the following steps
>
> 1) Boot the PC from Linux install CD-ROM
> 2) install starts and detects my keyboard, mouse etc. also loads
> drivers for usb storage device
> 3) It throws up a screen listing the drives where I can install linux.
> Here, I am unable to see my external hard drive. I remember that it
> will be shown with the label sda. but I am able to see only my
> internal IDE hard disk ( hda ) and not the external hard drive ( sda
> ).
> Due to the problem mentioned in step 3, I am unable to install
> redhat EL 3 on my external hard drive. any solutions will be most
> welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Karthik



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