FC5 on Dell Inspiron 6000 External HDD

prashb2000 · #1 5th April 2006, 12:47 AM

I am trying to install FC5 on Dell Inspiron 6000 on an external Hard drive (Maxtor 100 GB).

I had FC4 installed on this drive before. I want to upgrade to FC5.

When I am trying to install, the partition screen does not show me the externalhard drive what am I missing here. When I boot from the CD it shows that it is loading USB driver and all..

thanks..

james419 · #2 5th April 2006, 04:32 AM

Did you boot using "linux expert" ? It will be necessary in order for the installed to see the external drive.

Jim

prashb2000 · #3 5th April 2006, 04:48 AM

thanks james,

I found answer somewhere on this forum and booted with linux expert mode. everything went smooth

Only I had to struggle lil for getting the GRUB configuration working.
Thanks..