Now try it on a M/S Windows computer. Does it show up? On 10/13/07, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:53 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > Remember that your filesystem has to be Windows compatible, and if you > > are going to get an image of a DVD of something over 4GB I understand > > that that means NTFS. > > My exp. has been that using the ntfs-3g progams to make the filesystem > > is not reliable. > > I recommend - believe it or not - that one should use Windows-XP to > > make the filesystem on your portable usb drive. > > > I had no problems with the following.... > > Create ntfs partion with > cfdisk > > Format ntfs partion with > mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda1 > > Mount drive (writable) with > mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive/ -o force > (Having first created folder /mnt/usbdrive) >
-- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
