A renaissance view of technology

Installing Linux on an external USB hard drive

First a little background…
Why would one want to install Linux on an external USB hard drive instead of setting up a dual-boot type system? Well, for starters, the intended target for this OS is my laptop. My laptop hard drive already has Vista installed and I didn’t feel like using a partition editor to create [...]

Bad initrd image with Fedora 10 update

Yet again, I seem to be getting a bad initrd image with a Kernel update. On boot, the system will respond with:
mount: cannot mount /dev/root on /sysroot
The solution, as stated in the previous post, is to boot into a known working Kernel, and re-build the initrd image. Create a backup of the original before you [...]