[Fwd: Re: [Bassetlug mailing] Installing on external USB disc drive]

[Mark Pengelly Online]

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Subject: Re: [Bassetlug mailing] Installing on external USB disc drive
From:    "Mark Pengelly Online" <markshop at pengelly.info>
Date:    Wed, June 4, 2008 1:41 pm
To:      "MJ.Wells" <mj.wells at ischus.co.uk>
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we wait with baited breath on the usb saga then!

Could I flag a mistake I made: I replied to sender instead of to the
mailing list in last couple of bassetLUG emails; subsequent posts didn't
go to it as a result either...

Obviously helpful for others to see such discussion on the mailing list,
as a useful resource...

Sorry, Mark




On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:04 +0100, MJ.Wells wrote:
Mark, John,
>
> I think I may have solved the problem with your help. However, I haven't
> actually seen the drive in Linux yet as that is a job for this evening, but
> I have confidence that I will do so now. Being re-assured that I had done
> all the things that you suggested and that things like SCSII support were
> unlikely to be the problem enabled me to start thinking of other issues.
>
> I am using an enclosure that is really designed for CD-drives. A 2.5Gb hard
> drive was working in Windows, but I didn't think this was big enough to use
> for Ubuntu so I swapped it for an 8.4Gb drive. Foolishly I tried that drive
> only on Linux.
>
> Your mails caused me to go back to square one and check it in Windows. It
> complains there that the USB item cannot be initialised and Device Managed
> enquiry gave an error that the drive couldn't be started. Observation of
the
> startup of the drive revealed that it did not produce enough noise to
> convince me that the internal electronics was correctly accessing the
drive.
>
> I had a bright idea: I have a 6Gb drive in a system and replaced this with
> the 8Gb drive. The freed up 6Gb drive works OK.
>
> I obtained the enclosure as a cast off from someone else and so I don't
know
> its exact provenance. I have checked the manufacturer Web-Site and a
similar
> item says that it should take a Terabyte drive. However, the conclusion
that
> I have come to is that this particular enclosure has a problem with drives
> larger than that 8.1Gb boundary that I vaguely remember was a problem a few
> years ago.
>
> Sometimes just talking about it gets one out of the rut and moves you on.
> Many thanks.
>
> --------------------
>
> A good idea to get together to look at eGroupWare. !7th is OK for me.
Either
> location is fine as well, whichever is best for you.
>
> --------------------
>
> As you probably gathered I am trying to get a Linux system up that that I
> can use at the meetings as I am not able to put it directly on my laptop
> hard drive as it is very full and I am also not prepared to risk it being
> more unstable than it already gets during program development.
>
> Perhaps if I had experience of things like VMware I might be less reluctant
> so I would find it useful to have a session on it.
>
> --------------------
>
> Looking forward to meeting you, John.
>




I'm using one that just plugs and plays as a USB device.

perhpas that's not what you mean though, you want it to be included in the
filing system as if it were any other (internal) drive?


markp



> Has anyone experience of installing  any Linux distribution (but
> particularly Ubuntu) on an external USB disc drive.?
>
>
>
> I am having difficulty mounting the drive prior to the installation. This
> means that the drive not appear as an option when arrive at the
> partitioning
> stage. Using the lsusb command I think I can see that the drive is present
> in the list of USB devices. I think that I need to enable SCSI support in
> the kernel when I boot from the installation CD, but haven't yet
> discovered
> how to do this with the CD installation.
>
>
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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