bdeetz

OK! I think I might have enough info to get this going. I was reading my user manual and found that USB legacy support comes dissabled by default. I haven't had a chance to test enabling it but, from what I understand about legacy, I should be able to boot to usb devices. By the way, I had read before hand that I should do diskdruid to avoid LVM. My partition setup is as follows. /boot ----- 100MB ----- ext3 / --------- 3400MB ---- ext3 ----------- 500MB ----- swap extended /wshare --- fill ------ vfat Again thank you so much for your help. Maybe I won't have any more questions for a while.

danleff thank you for the fast reply. I have an HP dv5130us. AMD Turion 64 ML-27 2.0GHZ 120GB HD 1GB RAM External HD 40 GB I did a little searching for a boot loader cd before I posted this topic but no luck. If I got the boot loader cd could I then rework the initrd? Also for the install process I refered to the following link http://www.linuxcompatible.org/Install_Fedora_Core_4_on_USB_hard_drive_t34055.html

I am pretty much a newbe to linux. Got the bright idea to install linux on a external HD. I have installed Fedora core 4 on the drive in linux expert mode. Then, I went to my new laptops bios to find that it doesn't boot to usb... My idea is to create a livecd with just the kernel but it will be filled with symlinks to /dev/sda#. Is this even possible or do symlinks not really work like that. Sorry if this is a stupid question. Sincerely, bdeetz