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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,02:33 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,05:12 QUOTE
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/sda
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,09:07 QUOTE
Many thanks, thats exactly what I needed to know.

:)

Tim
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,15:43 QUOTE
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 :D

I feel glad about finding out I still have a lot to learn. Fortunately so.
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,18:16 QUOTE
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!

:)

Tim
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