installing onto a usb harddrive

[dcstimm]

Hey guys, I have a new USB 2.0 Harddrive that I got for a steal. I wanted to try out fedora on it, so I set up my bios to boot off the fedora cd, and I was expecting there to be a way to install fedora onto it, but disk droid didnt see the sda device. But if I did (ctrl+alt+f1) and typed dmesg, it sees the usb harddrive perfectly as sda. Can fedora only install on hdx? Also If I installed the external harddrive as my master internal drive so I can install fedora, and then switched it back to usb would it mess it up? Or would I just have to modify my fstab? My motherboard can boot off of usb devices, and I have tested this with suse, windows xp and Gentoo linux.

thanks for any help.

[Jman]

Perhaps the usb and other drivers are not loaded with the installation kernel? That's what this post at linuxquestions (http://linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/25/2004/02/2/144052) suggests.

Wild guess: try loading some driver disk from the images directory of CD 1 or here (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/images/) Try drvblock.img. The Red Hat 9 instructions of how to make a boot disk (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-driverdisk.html) should still be valid.

Good luck.