Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:21:11 -0800
From: Quentin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
unless you really really like what it does. Unfortunately that usually
requires a vendor-specific tool, as the U3 partition somehow magically
recreates itself if removed with normal tools (at least the one on my
Sandisk drive did).
I think the problem is the ~6MB block at the beginning of the drive (no
recognized FS under Linux).
I was looking at my notes from when I inspected, and then converted my 2GB
SanDisk U3 stick to run DSL (Damn Small Linux) on it.
I didn't do much with U3 on Linux, beyond from what I said in my earlier
post below.
I first saved the existing stuff on the stick using dd (entire stick as
well as just the DOS partition)
My notes indicate that I used a tool on the stick to remove the U3 thing.
Then from DOS:
FORMAT M: /fs:FAT32
That took U3 off forever :-)
Before putting DSL on it I played a little game by putting a floppy boot
image on it (Ghost boot disk). Yes, it worked.
That be it.....................Horst
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Notes below are quiet cryptic and may not mean much to others...
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112 dd if=/dev/sdb of=USB_2GB-SanCruzer-U3_entireDrive.dd
113 dd if=/dev/fd0 of=Ghost2003-bootable-fd0.dd
114 dd if=Ghost2003-bootable-fd0.dd of=/dev/sdb
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# cfdisk /dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun1/cd
# dd if=/dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun1/cd of=U3-parti-addMore.dd
12288+0 records in
12288+0 records out
#
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:30:45 -0800 (PST)
From: horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] DSL&QEMU on Scan 2GB USB stick
...
The San 2GB stick actually comes with 2 partitions:
1) 'U3' cruser (ca. 6MB) which emulates a CD so they can take advantage
of autorun stuff. (dd
if=/dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun1/cd of=...)
2) was FAT16 (I think, before I reformatted) U3 also shows up as 'CD'
under linux, in addition to
the data partition.
Now the funny part: where the printed HowTo talks about the system
requirements it says
"Windows 2000, XP (supports Linux)"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
and not just in English, XP 'supports' Linux in all the other five
languages listed!
We'v come a long way :-)
...
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