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Install Debian on USB HDD
Name: Chad Johnson (by ChadJohnson) Date: December 4, 2004 at 12:22:22 Pacific OS: Debian CPU/Ram: 2.8GHz
Comment:
I bought a USB harddrive and I want to install Debian on it. When I boot from the Debian install CD and I get to the partitioning part, I don't see my USB drive listed as a drive. Obviously it's only looking for IDE drives.
How can use the Debian installer to install Debian onto my drive?
Name: j1mbo Date: December 7, 2004 at 04:34:23 Pacific
Reply:
You might be able to get it to detect your USB drive if you boot from debian floppies instead, since you can download various types of boot floppy for various purposes... eg. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html
This sounds like the kind of thing. <qoute> `bf2.4' This is an experimental flavor which uses a special version of the kernel-image-2.4 package. It provides support for newer hardware components which is absent in the other (more stable) flavors. It supports more USB hardware, USB keyboards/mice, modern IDE controllers, some new network cards, and Ext3 and Reiser file systems. </qoute>
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