On Monday 09 February 2004 15:22, Laurent Mugnier wrote: > So here is what worked (and what did not, FYI) after quite a bit of > fumbling: > > - I deleted all partitions (/dev/sda1 and 2 that I had just made) with > fdisk > > - I made one FAT16 (code 6) partition /dev/sda1 with fdisk > > - I formatted /dev/sda1 *from* *Linux* with > mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 <snip> > Then I can use both Linux and W98 without any file being erased,
Hmm... have you tried filling up the stick? Is it still working? When I filled it up to about 4/5th of it's capacity, it started losing the files again. Johannes -- Powered by SuSE 8.1pro - KDE 3.0.3 - KMail 1.4.3 At least, try asking smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Netiquette is easy: http://learn.to/edit_messages ...and you'll get flame-free answers in no time. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
