Re: [LUG] Installation onto a Firewire Disk

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Monday 17 Nov 2003 10:07 am, Matt Lee wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > A friend at work wants to get into GNU/Linux, and wants to install it onto
> > his Dell Inspiration 8200.
> >
> > Has anyone got any experience with installing onto a firewire disk?
> >
> > If I understand correctly, the module ieee1394 needs to be loaded, and then
> > the disk should be easily mounted as /dev/sda1 - however, what would need
> > to be done to get this to boot each time?
>
>
> I do have a few distros in my LinuxFormatDVD collection that might be 
> suitable, some that fit on a floppy, one complete GUI distro that fits on a 
> 128MB USB stick. 
>
> Tell me more (like how big is the firewire disc, what other connection methods 
> does the box have etc.) - off-list if you like. I'll have a hunt through the 
> documentation of the super-small distros.

I think the problem is more boot loader orientated... correct me if i am 
wrong.. but you will need to tell the computer to boot from a firewire 
device...

The rest should be easy as linux will treat the drive as a SCSI...

Neil


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