i'm feeling like an idiot right now so i'm just going to ask ... i
have a bunch of 8G USB drives that i want to format to contain an ISO
image of RHEL 7 for a class tomorrow where students will plug in the
drive into a windows box, then install RHEL 7 in either vmware player
or virtualbox. sounds simple, right?
so what is the recipe for formatting the USB drives properly?
i'm doing this on fedora 22, and i obviously want the combination of
fdisk and mkfs that lets me format, pop out the USB drive, then plug
it back in and have it automount, just as a sanity check.
i've tried various combinations of fdisk partition types and mkfs,
and i have yet to get to the point where, after running something
like mkfs.vfat, i can remove the drive, then plug it back in and have
it recognized.
so what's the secret? first, in fdisk, what partition type should i
set the partition to? and once i do that, write and quit, which
variation of "mkfs" should i run?
this really shouldn't be that hard, but i just can't make it work.
rday
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