I rarely install software that comes with hardware. It's a waste of space on the computer and you don't need it. It's just that there is a lot of confusing information about Linux. I was told that often USB sticks don't work with Linux. But I have Ubuntu on my computer (together with Windows, just to get myself familiar with Linux) and tried it and the memory stick worked just fine. So I would assume that the same goes with an external hard drive, as that's actually not really anything else than a giant memory stick.:-) I could ask in the shop, but unfortunately most people know very little about Linux, so I could easily get the wrong information. That's why I ask the experts.
Cheers,
Rixta
if it's storage and you can plug it in, it should work like any other
hard disk. That includes USB keys (thumbdrives)
eSATA hard disks, USB and eSATA CD/DVD Drives, floppies, etc.
The only catch is that you won't be able to use the software that
companies ship on those drives in Linux. You MAY be able to use them
using an emulator like wine, but honestly, you don't really need them.
I've never used the software that comes with those drives, on Windows
or on Linux.
One thing to remember, don't plug the drive in when you're installing.
Just in case.
Fedora, and other things based on Red Hat, use LVM by default, and the
default behaviour of LVM on Red Hat based distros is to create the LVM
volume across any and every hard disk it can find.
I've seen this many times (been bitten by it once or twice too) and
had the installer create an LVM that spanned my USB keys and external
hard disks on test systems.
And in case you're going to ask, LVM is Logical Volume Management.
It's a way to create a fluid storage space that spans multiple drives.
It's not like RAID, but more a way to manage large storage
environments.
Cheers
Jeff
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