On Tuesday, Apr 26, 2005, at 09:54 US/Central, L. V. Lammert wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Robert Citek wrote:Thanks for testing!!! Unfortunately that would not work with an 80GB USBSame thing goes for FAT32 except that you need to explicitly tell mkfs to use FAT32:
# mkfs.vfat -F 32 -C uba1.img 8001 # dd if=uba1.img of=/dev/uba1
dive (no room to build an image).
Actually, it may still work. mkfs.vfat with the -C option creates a sparse filesystem, so not all the data is there. Only when you try to use the filesystem does the kernel actually allocate the space.
BTW, the tests I did were done with a USB stick not a drive. YMMV.
Also, you can't put a FAT32 on a 80GB drive, unless you partition the drive so that a single partition is not larger than 32 GB.
Back to W98 boot floppy <sigh>. Thanks for confirming that mkfs.vfat is broken, however, .. at least it's not somehing I'm doing wrong.
Bummer that mkfs.vfat doesn't work as expected in Knoppix 3.8. Have you tried an earlier version of Knoppix?
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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