Re: installing Debian on USB harddisk?

[Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>]

Hi Dan,

I do have a usb cdrom drive I could use at install time.
But I would like to do a regular install on the usb harddisk,
similar to a pc with an ide, sata, or scsi drive.

Would this work? Esp. important is whether the initrd provided
by d-i supports mounting a usb harddrive for /. Does it?


Regards

Harri
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Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007 00:13, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>
> > I've got a Linutop PC, but maintaining the usual squashfs
> > system on a tiny USB stick is much too painful. I would
> > like to make the USB stick obsolete, and use a USB harddisk
> > instead.
>
> > Is d-i supposed to support installing and running Debian
> > on a USB harddisk drive without any USB stick or Floppy
> > drive available?
>
> The easiest would be if you had a CD-(ROM,R,RW)/DVD(+/-)(ROM,R,RW,RAM) drive.
>
> The easiest alternative method would be to preformat the usb hard disk and put 
> the installer on the usb hard disk from another machine.
>
> Can you netboot? If so, there is also the netboot method. (Requires a dhcp and 
> tftp server under your control).
>
> If none of those is possible you may be out of luck; How else do you obtain 
> software/data to put on this computer?
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel