On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahh, this maybe where some of the confusing behavior we were seeing comes > from. Let me repeat what I think I understand so I can see if I have it > right.
Pretty close :-) > FAT is the same thing as FAT16 Yes... and there's various types of FAT16. - there's an early FAT16 that only supports partitions up to 32MB - there's FAT16 supporting up to 2GB - there's FAT16 LBA, which I don't know the limits for, but your usual 4/8GB flash disks support. > FAT is only an option for USB sticks 2 GB or less. You can only format a USB > stick larger then 2 GB as FAT32. Either FAT32 or FAT16 LBA. > Some computers will not boot from a FAT32 formatted stick but some will. > Thus if you put SoaS onto a 4 GB USB it will fail on some computers and not > others. Exactly. > A partition allows you to have one part of the USB formatted differently > then another part. That's one option involving more work. FAT16LBA is the other option, and seems to work. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
