formatting an flash drive

formatting an flash drive

[Glenn Ervin]

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

Re: formatting an flash drive

[Gregory Nowak]

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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
> 
> 
> 
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Re: formatting an flash drive

[Glenn Ervin]

Greg,
I would like that, but unfortunately, GRML or other distros will not yet run 
on this laptop.
I wrote in earlier on it.
It is an Averatec, 2300, and the sound does not work for software speech.
Actually, I'm not sure yet if I can get it to boot to the flash drive on 
this computer, but if not, I can use it on other computers.
Thanks for the help.
Glenn


Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> 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@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: formatting an flash drive

[Gregory Nowak]

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Well, then the first part of my post regarding the use of windows
still stands. If you're limited to windows only, and can't/don't want
to format the flash drive on another gnu/linux box, then you can
either use the full drive for windows, or format the first Gig for
windows as you mentioned wanting to do, and leave the rest empty,
until you're able to run gnu/linux on the laptop. Unfortunately, there
is no way that I know to create/format a partition as ext3/reiserfs
under windows, or anything other than gnu/linux for that matter.

Greg



On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 04:44:14PM -0500, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> 
> Greg,
> I would like that, but unfortunately, GRML or other distros will not yet run 
> on this laptop.
> I wrote in earlier on it.
> It is an Averatec, 2300, and the sound does not work for software speech.
> Actually, I'm not sure yet if I can get it to boot to the flash drive on 
> this computer, but if not, I can use it on other computers.
> Thanks for the help.
> Glenn
> 

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Re: formatting an flash drive

[Nick Gawronski]

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.
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
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Subject: Re: formatting an flash drive


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> 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@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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