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roland roland at cat.be
Mon Jul 27 17:30:28 UTC 2009


On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:18:57 +0200, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> Craig White wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 10:59 +0200, roland wrote:
>>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:43:52 +0200, Mikkel L. Ellertson   
>>> <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> roland wrote:
>>>>> I tried to do this, but he complains saying the stick is not bootable
>>>>> so I should use /sbin/parted
>>>>> Parted only allows to make a ext2 filesystem.
>>>>> How should I do this. Why does it work out of the box with you guys?
>>>>>
>>>> First of all, parted will make many other file systems besides ext2.
>>>> From the man page:
>>>>
>>>> mkfs partition fs-type
>>>>   Make  a  filesystem  fs-type on partition. fs-type can be
>>>>   one of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap", or "reiserfs".
>>>>
>>>> But I believe what they are asking you to do is make sure the boot
>>>> flag is set on the partition.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> what should be the capacity of the stick?
>> ----
>> I've been able to get live-iso to work with a 4 Gb USB key disk (even
>> with the DVD)
>>
> You can get there with 4GB, but IIRC there was little/no room for a swap  
> partition. Also no need on any machine I used, but not all machines have  
> large memory.

I already bought two sticks and followed the instructions in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Ability_to_boot_from_USB_media

But I always got the notice to make the stick bootable (the last one was  
8GB)

Does this mean
- the sticks are no good?
- I'm doing something wrong?
- what kind of stick is ok?

>





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