[ale] Installing RedHat 7.3

[James P. Kinney III]

Technology marches on and I missed something. Thanks for the update,
Chris. I should have guessed that if the USB port can be keyboard port
for BIOS level control, then it should be easy to make it a passthrough
for hard drive. 

I have no external drive that aren't SCSI, so...

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 20:10, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > I would be very surprised if any usb drive is bootable. I doubt that
> > RedHat will be able to install onto the drive. If it does, you will most
> > likely need to make the boot floppy when it says to make one during the
> > install.
> 
> Booting off USB simply requires that your BIOS support it (ie, newish BIOS), 
> that you have all the USB mass storage drivers, and that your kernel be 
> patched to support USB booting. Both RHL 8.0 and RHL 9 are supposed to 
> support it out of the box, and latest SuSE / Mandrake would as well, I 
> imagine. I've never needed to test it and see, though ;-)
> 
> later,
> chris
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