Slackware / Fedora stuffs.

[Distant.Echo]

Since Deadly and LoRd are nubs, maybe you guys can help.
I have the .iso's for both *nix platforms on their respective discs and I have  a 40gb partition set apart on my EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. /caps off.
Anyways, is there a way to get it installed on that drive? I have tried with Fedora and I just couldn't get anywhere with that, and Slack couldn't find anything with the exception of its own .iso in my cd-rom drive. HALP!

[Joe]

I'll just assume USB hard drive, because.. you know.. you didn't say (hehe). I know Tory's laptop was able to boot from an external USB hard drive, and I know my Dell can't. If your BIOS doesn't support booting from it, you sir, are screwed.

[rabbit]

He doesn't need to boot from it.  If he can load the disks, and install the platforms, he can tell LILO or Grub to boot from the drive, though it's always better to have an internal.

Distant, boot from the Slack disk into the terminal, login as root, and type lsusb
That will show, if detected, what your HD is.  Then mount it with... the mount command, to some folder in /mnt
Then run fdisk or cfdisk with as (c)fdisk /mnt/<mount point and you should be able to setup the partitions.

I'm not sure about Fedora..

[deadly7]

Don't you use Fedora? :P

[rabbit]

Fedora's installer doesn't boot to a terminal, so I don't know about it.  Also, I used Slackware for several months, and I've been on Fedora for about a week.

[Eric]

Since Deadly and LoRd are nubs, maybe you guys can help.

You changed the subject before I had a second to respond.  I assumed you didn't want help.

DistantE5: Well..eff that. I got some weird wavy Fedora graphic, then the computer doesn't do shit.
DistantE5: And can you auth ppl?