Live USB-stick format
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Aug 8 13:44:58 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson wrote:
> I want F9 on a USB stick. It's 8GB, and comes with a few files concerned with
> using it on windows, so I don't really care whether they survive or not.
>
> Most of my hardware is not so young, and doesn't boot off usb sticks.
> However, the EeePC should do - it does from a Mandriva flash drive. It lists
> the drive, in BIOS, enclosed in [ ] which seems to mean that it is not
> bootable, so I looked at the drive with fdisk. It says
>
> Disk /dev/sdc1: 8120MB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: loop
>
> and that 'The flag 'boot' is not available for loop disk labels'
>
> Obviously I've done something wrong, but what?
>
> Anne
>
Dumb question - did you run "fdisk -l /dev/sdc" or
"fdisk -l /dev/sdc1"? The first form is the correct one, and the
second one will give strange results. From the output it looks like
you used the second form.
Mikkel
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for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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