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[Bill Davidsen]

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.

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