Rylan Cottrell a écrit :
Check to make sure the usb is 2.0, and probably the easiest way to test is to put damn small linux on a thumb drive and see if the computer will boot of that.
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 20:45 +0530, Puneit Singh wrote:
Hi, I know this is a query which should not be posted in this mailing list as it is not related to SUSE. So, excuse me for that. My friend has a IBM Notebook with a 15 GB internal hard-disk. He is planning to buy an external 80 GB USB harddrive. Will using such a hard-disk cause problems, like slowing of the OS or anything like that. The box has a 256 MB RAM. And can he install Linux as an operating system on that 80 GB with windows on the internal drive. Is such a combination possible?
Hi, I tried such an experience this week with a HP ZD8000 laptop. I tried to install windows and GRUB on the computer's hard disk and Linux on the USB disk, I met two difficulties : 1° Linux SuSE 10.1 installs very well, boots from the DVD with the option "boot the installed system", but doesn't boot by itself, the problem is that USB disks are not detected enough early in order to be mounted in time by the boot scripts, so BOOT failed. 2° I was able to install GRUB on hda with SuSE on sda but neither with Yast nor with grub-install, I had to use grub specific commands : root, find and setup So this way could be usable but I've to modify the scripts embedded in initrd in order to wait for usb detection and to fill the dev folder ....too lazy ?? I didn't yet try to boot the computer from the usb disb (it is able to boot from usb) and to see if all its partitions are detected by the kernel, but I don't believe that !! I think I'll meet the same problem. So at this time I installed a small part of windows and of Linux on the first disk with GRUB and the remainder on the usb disk. But take care if as myself you use 2 usb disks, they could be called either sda or sdb and fstab won't be able to work. So use in fstab the /dev/disk/by-id/nnn names, and it works. I'm even able to have the vmware partition on the usb disk if I use these names. Furthermore I wrote a script in order to mount some linux partitions after completion of the usb and udev work. It's somewhat complicated but it works, I'm ready to adopt any other better solution. Michel.