Install linux on USB HDD
well, i searched this forum to & fro but i didn't find anything really helpful (at least, not resolutive )...
after an intense fight i managed to install linux on an USB HDD: the distro is mandriva 2006 and lilo the bootloader. After the successful installation it booted, but "obviously" in few seconds it raised the kernel panic error (as far as i understood, due to USB slowy connection that goes out of sync) in this forum found what i needed... but some steps are unclear to me (obviously noob :P ): i tried to follow this sort of how to : Quote:
is there anyone who has a lot of patience and will to help me ? thank you in advance, Matt |
up ? help plz
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I've been trying this for a long time. The only success I've had is installing Feather to a Cruizer Mini 256KB USB-FD and (better) Ubuntu to a 80GB USB-HDD.
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I finally got Kubuntu to install and boot from a USB external Western Digital Passport hard drive. No additions or tweaking needed from an install with Kubuntu Live CD. Several other distros wouldn't run on my new Acer laaptop, some wouldn't install to external hard drive and Mepis would istall but wouldn't boot. I tried seveal times to install Ubuntu 6.10 on external hard drive with no luck. Same with Puppy. I think it is just trial and error till you find something that works on your machine unless you really understand this linux stuff and understand why things don't work and if your lucky, how to fix them.:newbie: |
Some times you have to fixit from the InitRD image. Try things like check for the existance of the USB root drive. May be you should poll around after loading the USB and SCSI modules.
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i got a sata drive in a usb enclosure, and suse 10.1 worked well. Just normal installation procedure for me...
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