ke4nt1
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Posted: Jan. 26 2005,20:49 |
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That happens when you exit sfdisk, and go into cfdisk or fdisk.
You need to setup the partitions IN sfdisk ..
After your initial execute parameters, you are given choices
about 4 possible partitions ( the primaries )
If you wish to make ONE large partition, try this ...
1:0 888 6 *
2:0 0
3:0 0
4:0 0
Then write changes to partition table, and it exits..
I don't know how you wish to setup your partitions,
but the first ( or only ) one needs to be setup
as a fat16 ( type 06 ).
DO NOT USE CFDISK OR FDISK
unless you have made partitions FIRST using sfdisk,
otherwise , a default geometry may be used instead.
Then partition using the dosfstools.dsl package as your
sources for dos utilities ..
' mkdosfs /dev/sda1 '
I like to make a 128 MB fat partition, for the 5 way.tar.gz
script in the repository, which adds the qemu to your pen.
Then make the other 128MB of the drive another partition,
and format it as ext2 for use in backups and extensions.
Then you would use this in your root shell ..
sfdisk -f -H18 -S32 -C888 /dev/sda
1: 0 444 6
2: 445 888 83
3: 0 0
4: 0 0
write/exit
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
mke2fs /dev/sda2
Here is the info for the 5 way pendrive.
It supercedes the older "Install to Pendrive" routine.
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....and+way
Also , these threads give some more details procedures for
using the sfdisk tool to correctly setup your pendrive geometry..
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....8;st=10
or
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=sfdisk
Let us know..
73
ke4nt
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