On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 17:54 -0700, Mr. Benjamin Meis wrote:
--- James Knott
wrote: Mr. Benjamin Meis wrote:
--- James Knott
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
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