No idea. I've done that any number of times with no problem from XOs, and even my Mac.
wad On Sep 16, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Kevin Gordon wrote: > Folks: > > I am to understand that any upcoming m/b upgrade to an XO 1.5 will perhaps > come with an 8GB card, thus making the old 4GB card superfluous. As such, I > figured I would run an attempt at repurposing them. > > So in anticipation, I've taken out two (working perfectly) microSD 4GB cards > from a couple of test 1.5's, placed 8Gb cards in the machines, re-flashed > them, and all is good on those XO boxes with the new cards > > I then take the removed 4GB cards over to my Fedora 17 box and try to > reformat them. I must be doing something wrong, or have missed some basic > info - and, no, I am in as su, and the cards are not in hardware read-only > switched adapters :-) > > I've tried parted, fdisk, then tried diskutil over on a Mac, Ubuntu. and yes, > even disk manager on Windows. I cant seem to find any way to delete the 2 > linux partitions and make just one big happy fat32 partition on either card, > on any machine, using any software. On Fedora, fdisk seems to let me delete > the partitions: i choose, i delete 1 & 2, i write, i look and it says there > are no partitions. But lo and behold, when I reboot as suggested, they > 'reappear'. I even tried on an F11 and F14 box too. gparted shows them > successfully deleted, then on the post-op rescan, they're back. Am I > missing something basic? I have happily formatted and reformatted, > partitioned, resized, and otherwise intialised many other (non-former XO > boot) SD cards with linux/fat32/linux-swap partitions on all of these > machines; but. alas I now feel all newbie again. > > Cheers > > KG > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
