Re: Is it possible to install RH on an external drive (usb1) ?

From: Frank Winans (fwinans_at_airmail.net)
Date: 09/13/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:36:37 -0500

"Lenard" wrote
> user typed:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to test Linux RH 7.2 on an actual laptop (Compaq Evo n1005v),
which
> > has one hd with XP pro (3 partitions c, d, e) and another (external) hd,
> > connected by USB2 (via a pccard) or firewire ieee1394
> >
> > I can connect this external drive via USB1 (without the pccard). I am
> > wondering if I could install RH on this external drive ; which is
supposed
> > to be recognized by the BIOS.
>
> The BIOS does not support booting from a USB hard drive. You will need at
> least one Linux partition on the internal hard drive in order to boot
> Linux using an external hard drive. You would have to due the same for any
> other OS also. The BIOS supports booting from a USB floppy only, which is
> the case in 99.99% of all laptops that support booting from a USB device.
Maybe don't do a straight boot to it; does XP have the old 'restart
computer
in dos mode' option that win9x had? Then you could {loadlin, syslinux, I
forget
which} launch a kernel & big ramdisk or something to get it up and running
on
the linux usb drivers. Really hairy trick though, worthy of NASA in the
glory days.
Might be easier to just set up another computer on a lan to serve up a net
boot.

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