Live USB-stick format

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 12 08:46:00 UTC 2008


On Monday 04 August 2008 03:51, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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?
>
> Best guess is that you formatted it without a partition table and/or
> boot sector. Try "fdisk -l" as root and see if you get more information.
>
/dev/sdc1   *           1        1023     8055071   83  Linux

Mounting the drive from a running system, I can see all the directories that I 
would expect to see.

Anne




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