Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[gary <garys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 17:54 -0700, Mr. Benjamin Meis wrote:
> 
> --- James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Mr. Benjamin Meis wrote:
> > > 
> > > --- James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Mr. Benjamin Meis wrote:
> > >>>> Mr. Benjamin Meis wrote:
> > >>>>> Does anyone know how to install SuSE linux on
> > an
> > >>>>> external usb hard drive?
> > >>>>> Ben
> > >>> --- James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> There are a few distros available that are
> > >> designed
> > >>>> to be installed on
> > >>>> pen drives etc.  Also, the computer must
> > support
> > >>>> booting from those drive.
> > >>> My BIOS supports it, but this is not a pen
> > drive,
> > >> this
> > >>> is a full hard drive in an enclosure.  Where
> > could
> > >> I
> > >>> find such a distro?
> > >> Google on "linux distro usb" to find several.
> > >>
> > > Those are just live distros, I'm talking about a
> > full
> > > version of SuSE linux INSTALLED on a usb connected
> > > hard drive.  my hard drive is a 250GB internal
> > hard
> > > drive that I have put in a usb enclosure and I
> > want to
> > > install SuSE 10.0 to it.
> > 
> > Perhaps those links will provide you with sufficient
> > info.  What happens
> > if you try to install to that drive?
> > 
> The install disc recognizes that a usb hard drive is
> there, but doesn't want to do anything with it (i used
> the grep command to find that out, someone on the
> chats helped me with that)
> 

If your disk is an ide hard drive that becomes a usb in the enclosure,
I've had success
by installing suse as hdb. Simply then remove the hard drive and put it
in your usb enclosure. With grub, it becomes hd1,  ( assuming hd0 alredy
exists)               --gary