Not sure if I understood you, but the USB-ZIP is only a nuisance in Windows. I have my 50/460MB USB-ZIP and I don't consideer those 460MB wasted because on GNU/Linux you can mount and use sda2. That obviously includes DSL.Well, you can always try the manual approach.
1) Boot DSL from the livecd. 2) Insert USB drive. For this example, I assume that it is located at /dev/sda 3) Open an xterminal window and type:
sudo su cfdisk /dev/sda
Then use the menus to delete the old partitions and create a new one. Make the new TYPE by 06 = FAT16
Write your partition table and exit cfdisk.
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
And that's it.
If you would rather just blank out your drive and use MSWindows to do the formatting, type:
sudo su dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdaMany thanks, thats exactly what I needed to know.
Tim
Quote (cbagger01 @ Feb. 09 2006,05:12)
Well, you can always try the manual approach.
At first I answered some like this in one of these USB II: Attack of the Clone Threads, pushed "Add Reply", relaxed for a while and then all went wrong, claxons sounding aloud, panic in the neuronal crowds as I realized someone could just be formatting his/her whole SCSI HD if the hard drive happened to be sda and the pendrive sdb or whatever.
I got mad editing the post writing warning signs here and there, putting 'don't cross this line' strings, disclaimers,... but then I used the Search button and found the (maybe) more secure way to do things.
Yeah, it was lotsa fun
I feel glad about finding out I still have a lot to learn. Fortunately so.In the past I wiped my share of partitions, overwritten hard drives etc etc...
I just love de-mountable hard drives in caddies. No chance of wiping 5 years of work and documents! Also drive images carefully placed on usb2 external drives.
fdisk is a delight compared to the MS version which does so much less!
