Bards1888 wrote:
Hello all,
I'm looking at setting up a sort of 'appliance' server and as such
its really not going to have a lot packages etc. I thought of installing 4.2 on a 1gb USB stick, however, the stick is not even recongnized by anaconda. It did appear when I did 'modprobe usb-storage.ko' as /dev/sdc (i have already have 2 SATA disks which are sda, sdb). Then the disk partitioner does not allow me to install on the USB stick, its not even listed as an available drive. Does anyone have any redhat/centos experience with this ? I've successfully managed to get OpenBSD and Ubuntu to install and boot on exactly the same kit so there is nothing wrong hardware wise. I might try and disconnect the SATA drives before attempting the install to see if that make any difference.
RedHat don't support installs on removable drives - see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2005-July/msg00021.html
But, looking at the anaconda source - in partedUtils.py at around line 833:
if isys.driveIsRemovable(drive) and not flags.expert: DiskSet.skippedDisks.append(drive) continue
So it looks like if you boot the installer with 'expert' on the command line it may work.
I've just tried this, I can get disk druid to see the USB drive - but I did have to 'go back' and re-try disk druid before it found the USB drive - I didn't get as far as installing (I don't have a 1GB USB stick), but it may work...
James Pearson