Bug 111069

Summary: Fedora won't install onto USB harddrive
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mark Fassler <fassler>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Mark Fassler 2003-11-26 22:42:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
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I have a Toshiba laptop with an external USB harddrive.  I wanted to
install Linux onto the external USB harddrive leaving the internal
harddrive untouched.  All of the hardware is correctly recognized with
a working Fedora install.  


Version-Release:
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Fedora Core 1


How reproducible:
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Run the Fedora install.  When you get to Manually partitioning with
Disk Druid, the installer won't detect /dev/sda* (the USB harddrive).


Workaround:
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Boot the installer into --text --expert mode.  As soon as the second
console becomes available, switch to it (ctrl-alt-f2).  Then do a "cp
-a /dev/sda /tmp/"

Continue with the install like normal.   

Now, once installed, the system won't actually boot, because the
initrd doesn't know how to talk to the USB harddrive.  So you have to
make an initrd with the USB drivers:

  mkinitrd --with=ehci-hcd --with=scsi_mod --with=sd_mod
--with=usbcore --with=usb-storage --with=usb-uhci
/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-11-28 02:48:40 UTC 
Installation to USB devices is not supported.