Chris- I can't imagine how one would mount an unpartitioned drive, unless it (the machine) automatically partitioned the drive for you, which is a bad idea, since it could lead to good data being lost if the machine made a mistake and tried to 'help' by partitioning a good drive.
What I did was install the fdisk and mkfs.msdos commands into my LTSP root (I have debian sarge, so I was able to just copy the sarge files over). The first thing I did was run fdisk on the terminal and completely remove all partitions on the thumb drive, and create a single FAT16 partition, and ran mkfs.msdos on the thumb drive. I don't know what these thumb drive manufacturers are doing, but the partition tables on these drives are really crazy. My Kingston had four partitions, and I think all of them had overlapping extents, so it would not mount. I deleted them all and recreated a single partition, and every system (Win/Mac/Linux) is happy with it now. fdisk is a little cryptic at first, but really the only commands you really need to know are: p - display the existing partition table d - delete a partition n - create a new partition (use type 6 for FAT16) w - save changes and exit ctrl-c - Cancel changes and exit! I'm sure there is a way to batch fdisk so you could make a script to clean a thumb drive and reformat it with a single click, but I have never tried this. -Todd Chris Fanning wrote: > Hi, > > I've been going through this and no luck. > What is meant by "Added support for un-partitioned USB Memory sticks > to be properly recognized as a local device" as stated in the wiki? > > Should I expect "sda: unknown partition table" to get mounted? > > Thanks. > Chris. > > On 1/22/07, Chris Fanning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I've read that LTSP-4.2 update 3 added support for un-partitioned USB >> Memory sticks to be properly recognized as a local device. >> >> I've just updated and plugged in a usb pendrive that reports from dmesg >> sda: unknown partition table >> >> Now, after upgrading I get the same dmesg message but still no icon on >> the desktop. >> Other usb devices work. >> >> Any help please? >> >> Chris. >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
