Re: Live USB-stick format

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On Friday 08 August 2008 14:44, Mikkel L. Ellertson 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?
> >
> > 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, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the install, so I 
can't examine the history to find out.

Mounting the drive in a running system shows all the expected directories 
under /media/Z Mate 8GB/DaneElec, and as you will see in my reply to Bill, 
fdisk shows

/dev/sdc1   *           1        1023     8055071   83  Linux

Anne

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