Can anyone help me install Red Hat 9 on an external USB 2.0 HDD? It is connected via a PCMCIA card on my laptop and is formatted as FAT32. I can see it in My Computer (Win2KPro), so I know it is connected correctly, but when I try to install Red Hat, the only partition available is my laptop HDD. I must be doing something wrong, but am not sure what it is. I used GRUB - should I use LILO? I did install the pcmciadd.img file on a floppy, however, that did not help. Thanks in advance!

i am not certain if redhat install will see usb devices?

Are you using a USB connector that attaches to a PCMCIA slot (converts the PCMCIA into USB)? IF so I highly suggest you check with Red Hat's site. I don't think you'll be able to install it that way because I think there will be a conflcit between what APPEARS to be PCMCIA CD-Rom but in actuality is USB. The PCMCIA image will help you boot but I don't think is meant to work with the type of set-up you are attempting. Good luck and post if you actually get it to work ... would love to know how is that possible if at all. Regards

some distros allow external device selection others dont i dont believe redhat will unless you fool it dont know about your drive but on my tower at home i simply set other device as first boot and my firewire drive was first seen device so i could install there if i chose etc.. unless its seen by the bios at boot time as a bootable device you may not be able to do it without a startup floppy telling the system to use it.... you could use a loaf distro to boot it that way.... but if it were me i would disconect my hd and set this other drive second in boot order (you will want cd rom first) boot off cdrom and see if redhat sees it this way after your done installing redhat simply replug in your hard drive boot into windows right click my computer go to properties advanced tab start up and recovery button under here make an entry for your linux os so its added to windows boot loader