I attempted to install FC3T1 on a USB drive using expert mode. It seems that all the proper files installed on the disk. The disk is a laptop disk contained inside a usb - ATA adapter and seems to work with the proper modeles loaded.
Are there any plans to get the module needed to mount USB disks loaded soon enough to be able to boot from these disks.
My grub.conf file is in the attached file.
There is a lot of interest in getting this concept to work.
Thanks, Jim
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:57, Jim Cornette wrote:
I attempted to install FC3T1 on a USB drive using expert mode. It seems that all the proper files installed on the disk. The disk is a laptop disk contained inside a usb - ATA adapter and seems to work with the proper modeles loaded.
You can install it.. but as far as I can tell, you won't be able to boot into it unless you tweak the initrd
Are there any plans to get the module needed to mount USB disks loaded soon enough to be able to boot from these disks.
My grub.conf file is in the attached file.
There is a lot of interest in getting this concept to work.
This concept works. I've gotten it to work. As mentioned, you need to get the initrd to load up the usb modules and you're all set.
Thanks, Jim
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:57, Jim Cornette wrote:
I attempted to install FC3T1 on a USB drive using expert mode. It seems that all the proper files installed on the disk. The disk is a laptop disk contained inside a usb - ATA adapter and seems to work with the proper modeles loaded.
You can install it.. but as far as I can tell, you won't be able to boot into it unless you tweak the initrd
Are there any plans to get the module needed to mount USB disks loaded soon enough to be able to boot from these disks.
My grub.conf file is in the attached file.
There is a lot of interest in getting this concept to work.
This concept works. I've gotten it to work. As mentioned, you need to get the initrd to load up the usb modules and you're all set.
Thanks, Jim
Thanks for the response. It would be decent to have a ready-made setup that works without a lot of tweaking. But since this is a hobby, I'll learn in the process when attempting to get the usb drive to boot up.
I did chroot to the usb installation and do some tinkering with the USB installation, but that was all that I tried so far. The chrooted environment was educational and I learned some processes that Linux has, so it wasn't a total loss.
Thanks,
Jim
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:19, Jim Cornette wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:57, Jim Cornette wrote:
I attempted to install FC3T1 on a USB drive using expert mode. It seems that all the proper files installed on the disk. The disk is a laptop disk contained inside a usb - ATA adapter and seems to work with the proper modeles loaded.
You can install it.. but as far as I can tell, you won't be able to boot into it unless you tweak the initrd
Are there any plans to get the module needed to mount USB disks loaded soon enough to be able to boot from these disks.
My grub.conf file is in the attached file.
There is a lot of interest in getting this concept to work.
This concept works. I've gotten it to work. As mentioned, you need to get the initrd to load up the usb modules and you're all set.
Thanks, Jim
Thanks for the response. It would be decent to have a ready-made setup that works without a lot of tweaking. But since this is a hobby, I'll learn in the process when attempting to get the usb drive to boot up.
I did chroot to the usb installation and do some tinkering with the USB installation, but that was all that I tried so far. The chrooted environment was educational and I learned some processes that Linux has, so it wasn't a total loss.
Well.. if you need more info on how to set it up.. here's 2 sites you can try.
http://benusa.com/linux/boot.htm http://simonf.com/usb/
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Well.. if you need more info on how to set it up.. here's 2 sites you can try.
Thanks for the links. I'll check them out and try setting up the usb installation.
My comments were mainly because of being able to complete an installation through the installer onto usb drives. I expected the next logical step, a booting system from the just installed OS. Maybe this feature can come along sometime.
Jim
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 11:43, Jim Cornette wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Well.. if you need more info on how to set it up.. here's 2 sites you can try.
Thanks for the links. I'll check them out and try setting up the usb installation.
My comments were mainly because of being able to complete an installation through the installer onto usb drives. I expected the next logical step, a booting system from the just installed OS. Maybe this feature can come along sometime.
Yah.. I know what you mean. I had the same pre-conception too. And Lo.. was I wrong..:-)
Jim
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:19, Jim Cornette wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:57, Jim Cornette wrote:
I attempted to install FC3T1 on a USB drive using expert mode. It seems that all the proper files installed on the disk. The disk is a laptop disk contained inside a usb - ATA adapter and seems to work with the proper modeles loaded.
You can install it.. but as far as I can tell, you won't be able to boot into it unless you tweak the initrd
Are there any plans to get the module needed to mount USB disks loaded soon enough to be able to boot from these disks.
My grub.conf file is in the attached file.
There is a lot of interest in getting this concept to work.
This concept works. I've gotten it to work. As mentioned, you need to get the initrd to load up the usb modules and you're all set.
Thanks, Jim
Thanks for the response. It would be decent to have a ready-made setup that works without a lot of tweaking. But since this is a hobby, I'll learn in the process when attempting to get the usb drive to boot up.
I did chroot to the usb installation and do some tinkering with the USB installation, but that was all that I tried so far. The chrooted environment was educational and I learned some processes that Linux has, so it wasn't a total loss.
Oh.. you don't really have to chroot. You just have to copy your new initrd to the usb drive's boot directory and edit your grub.conf
Thanks,
Jim
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