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Installing Red Hat EL 3.0 on external USB drive ( Maxtor 300 LE, 120 GB )

Installing Red Hat EL 3.0 on external USB drive ( Maxtor 300 LE, 120 GB )

Post by Karth » Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:14:19



Hi,
  Here is the scenario. I have redhat linux 9.0 installed on my
external usb 2 hard drive ( maxtor 300 LE ) and I am able to boot
linux from this hard drive and use it. This works perfectly fine. Now,
I need to overwrite my existing linux partition with Redhat EL 3.0
because it is mandated in my institution. Hence, I tried to install(
reinstall )  linux on the external hard drive thru the following steps

1) Boot the PC from Linux install CD-ROM
2) install starts and detects my keyboard, mouse etc. also loads
drivers for usb storage device
3) It throws up a screen listing the drives where I can install linux.
Here, I am unable to see my external hard drive. I remember that it
will be shown with the label sda. but I am able to see only my
internal IDE hard disk ( hda ) and not the external hard drive ( sda
).
     Due to the problem mentioned in step 3, I am unable to install
redhat EL 3 on my external hard drive. any solutions will be most
welcome.

Thanks,
Karthik

 
 
 
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Installing Red Hat EL 3.0 on external USB drive ( Maxtor 300 LE, 120 GB )

Post by ptenisn » Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:11:40


Boot off of the installation CD/DVD. At the prompt, type, "linux expert".
This will load the necessary USB drivers and off you go....

> Hi,
>   Here is the scenario. I have redhat linux 9.0 installed on my
> external usb 2 hard drive ( maxtor 300 LE ) and I am able to boot
> linux from this hard drive and use it. This works perfectly fine. Now,
> I need to overwrite my existing linux partition with Redhat EL 3.0
> because it is mandated in my institution. Hence, I tried to install(
> reinstall )  linux on the external hard drive thru the following steps

> 1) Boot the PC from Linux install CD-ROM
> 2) install starts and detects my keyboard, mouse etc. also loads
> drivers for usb storage device
> 3) It throws up a screen listing the drives where I can install linux.
> Here, I am unable to see my external hard drive. I remember that it
> will be shown with the label sda. but I am able to see only my
> internal IDE hard disk ( hda ) and not the external hard drive ( sda
> ).
>      Due to the problem mentioned in step 3, I am unable to install
> redhat EL 3 on my external hard drive. any solutions will be most
> welcome.

> Thanks,
> Karthik


 
 
 
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