Bug 151690
Summary: | RFE: Add USB install support | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Bernd Bartmann <bernd.bartmann> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4 | CC: | ciaraldi |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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Last Closed: | 2005-06-01 19:34:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Bernd Bartmann
2005-03-21 18:50:48 UTC
I just downloaded the DVD image of FC4T1 and tried this. When I got to manual partitioning with Disk Druid, it still only shows me the partitions on my internal hard drive, but nothing on the USB drive at all. I tried changing to Console #2 before running Disk Druid, then loading the USB modules (at least I thought that is what I was doing), but DD still only sees the internal HD. Are you sure that you selected "linux expert" at the syslinux boot prompt? This a very important as otherwise the usb-storage modules will be ignored by disk-druid. Here is what I did: The USB disk was already partitioned using Knoppix. I powered off the laptop (IBM Thinkpad T41), plugged in the USB drive, powered up the laptop, and booted from the FC4T1 installation DVD. When it stopped at the boot prompt, I typed "linux expert". The boot continued. It started the GUI. I chose my language and keyboard (English). There were a few more questions, including whether I had a driver disk, I think; I said no. Then it asked if I wanted automatic or manual partitioning. I chose manual. Disk Druid started up. In the top part of the Disk Druid screen it has what appears to be a list of the disks. The only one there was /dev/hda. On the bottom half of the screen was the list of partitions on that disk, which were correct. I could not see any way of switching to the USB disk. ---- I tried doing the same thing over again, but before I got to Disk Druid I used Ctrl-Alt-F2 to go to another console. Then I used insmod to load all the modules I thought I would need: usbcore, usb-storage, scsi-mod, sd-mod, uhci-hcd, and ehci-hcd. Then I hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 and returned to the installation. When I got to Disk Druid, it still only saw the IDE hard drive. Bernd, is this different from the way you did it? ---- If I boot from a Knoppix CD, I can mount, read, and write the USB hard drive with no trouble. So I know the Linux drivers work with my hardware. Interesting. This is exactly the same way as I did the installation. I tried it on two different systems: 1. VIA MS10000 mainboard with on-board CF-Slot that is seen as an USB storage device. The CF card was detected as /dev/sda when I booted with "linux expert". Booting from the USB-CF-card works after the manual steps described above. 2. MSI KT6-Delta mainboard with external USB attached multi-card reader. The CF card was detected as /dev/sda when I booted with "linux expert". Booting from the USB-CF card did not work on this system due to a BIOS problem. BTW: I had no other IDE devices in the system besides the DVD-ROM with the install media. For various reasons we are not going to suppose installing to a USB device. I'm marking this one as a duplicate of a bug that has a pretty decent explanation of why. You can also try an advanced search looking for any closed anaconda bugs with "usb" in the summary for further examples. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147256 *** |