Hi, On this same topic what is the largest normal USB flash drive that exists? The reason I say normal is there are now drives that allow the installation of software directly on the drive calling themselves u3 drives that work under windows. I want a large normal none u3 drive because I want to install grml on it once the spelling issues have been fixed. I contacted grml and they told me that this issue should be fixed in the next release. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 4:27 PM Subject: Re: formatting an flash drive > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Since you seem to insist on using windows here, you'd probably want to > use diskpart, and make the first partition be a ntfs partition on the > first 1G of the flash disk, leaving the rest empty. Then, reboot, and > format the first partition from my computer. Actually, since the first > partition would be 1G in size, you could probably use fat32 if you > wanted to. Then of course, reboot into gnu/linux, partition the rest > with cfdisk as linux native, reboot I suppose, and run mke2fs on it. > > A far better way in my opinion would be to do all your partitioning > with cfdisk from gnu/linux, and then run mke2fs on the linux > partition, and either run mkntfs/mkdosfs from gnu/linux on the first, or > format it from within windows as ntfs or fat32. > > Greg > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 04:03:50PM -0500, Glenn Ervin wrote: >> Hello All, >> Right now, I am using Windows and I have >> a 2 GB flash drive. >> I would like to format the first GB for Linux and the other GB for DOS, >> probably FAT32. >> I have a beta version of Partition Magic, 5.5 on my computer now, but I >> have >> not been able to find the flash drive with PM. >> Is there a good freeware anyware for this task? >> Thanks >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF/F1C7s9z/XlyUyARAo8yAKCiEw3LK7qE9qd/Sh0cEoN3EKx7PQCfWzup > O/35Klf46kuPBcxEth1N4OE= > =zzKs > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
