installing Fedora Core 3 on external USB harddrive

[cmariadiaz 0]

Is this possible? How?

 

Some details --

* laptop running XP home, BIOS does allow booting from USB device.

* linux is not installed on the internal harddrive

* when trying to install FC3 using boot CD the USB hard drive is not recognized. The internal harddrive is recognized

* I "could" try to install FC3 on the internal harddrive by creating a new partition ... but I'd prefer trying not to do this.

* finally, I do have a FC3 linux machine available where I could attempt to do the boot partition on the USB hard drive, if this helps.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[danleff 0]

Take a look at this thread and see if it works for you.