From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: With ext USB2 disks a reasonable price why is it that the FC3 installer/DiskDruid seems to fail to detect USB disks and hence you cannot install to a USB Disk. I have two machines with USB2 support, one an AMD64 machine The story is the same for both. I have a 160GB SmartDisk that I plan to use for Photos, video, backup etc but also for testing new releases of FC(4?) !!!! However, the FC3 installer at the Disk Druid stage has no idea that I have such a device !!!! During FC3 Install "Cont/Alt/F2" lets me run fdisk on the device (/dev/sda or /dev/sdb depending on which machine I'm working on) and hence partition it, mk... lets me make an ext3 file system on it, (/dev/sda1) mkswap lets me make swap on /dev/sda2 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/fred even lets me mount it. All this "during" installation !!!!! So all the drivers, etc must be installed and working! However when I go to the Disk Druid stage I only see my "main" disks (/dev/hda, /dev/sda for the SATA Athlon64 machine)? No USB in sight. The SmartDisk works perfectly as a normal data disk, either FAT32 or ext3, giving data transfer rates between 20 and 30 MB/s. Is there a way of forcing the installer to see the USB Disk ? Can this be added to the wish list? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.1.0.2-1,busybox-anaconda-1.00.rc1-5,... How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to install FC3 from CD/DVD to USB Disk 2. 3. Additional info:
USB disks aren't supported as installation targets due to the unpredictability of being able to boot the machine in this sort of setup after install.
*** Bug 150840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > USB disks aren't supported as installation targets due to the > unpredictability of being able to boot the machine in this sort of > setup after install. I am having this same problem on my IBM TRhinkpad T41. Jeremy, are you saying that not supporting installation to USB disks is a deliberate decision, made because of the unpredictability? I can understand that. Would it be possible to make this an option, perhaps with a strong warning that it might not work? I have heard of several people successfully booting from USB hard drives, but it required manual adjustment of several configuration files and rerunning mkinitrd, along with lots of trial-and-error. It would certainly be more convenient if the standard installation procedure could just set everything up on the USB drive as if it would work. The T41 supports booting from USB, and so far I have managed to get most of the way to booting, but I am not quite there yet.
*** Bug 151690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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