How to install DSL on a Usb Harddisk?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: How to install DSL on a Usb Harddisk?
started by: Kai990

Posted by Kai990 on June 02 2006,17:02

Hi
After trying around about 6hours to get DSL to work on a USB harddisk (at least i learned how to use cfdisk ) im tired now. Could someone please write me a step by step install guide (or a link to one)? But please tell me every single step i don´t know much about linux but i need to set this up!
I had my usb harddisk, made a swap partition sda1 and a linux partition sda2 and installed DSL normally on them. After i was finished and rebooted, LiLo didnt load, it just showed the letter L.
I think i need a special Initrd to boot using a usb harddisk.
So please tell me how all this works

Posted by Kai990 on June 03 2006,17:35

Please, someone help me, i really need to get some operation system on this usb harddisk

Posted by cbagger01 on June 04 2006,05:41

Most traditional hd installs don't use a initrd. They read directly off of the root partition.

Maybe you should try a frugal grub installation but to your USB hard drive instead of a regular IDE hard drive.