Hello,
I would like to install debian woody on my external had drive, but somehow the external harddrive is not detected durring the installation. How do I make it visible so i can select it during the installation process.
note: the hard disk is an external USB 2.0 hard disk.
How can i mount it before the installation.
I use the x86 debian woody installation ISO.
Thanks
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USB2 hard disk instalation
I'm not sure if woody does a good support for USB 2 but this is what I would try.
Switch to tty1 (CTRL+ALT+F1) and then login. Once you put the USB cable in to the PC, it should state something on the screen. If you are successful, you can mount it using the mount command.
The commands above are assuming that your USB hard drive is formatted as FAT32.
Switch to tty1 (CTRL+ALT+F1) and then login. Once you put the USB cable in to the PC, it should state something on the screen. If you are successful, you can mount it using the mount command.
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# mkdir /mnt/usb
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-
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