On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Guenther wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Nick Holland >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Besides, the finished flash drive is wonderfully useful. :) >>> (I've got a 4G, partitioned out as 2G OpenBSD, 2G FAT32, which is >>> bootable on OpenBSD and still usable as a Windows flash drive, >>> as well. Only problem I have is I keep buying the super-cheap >>> flash drives which work great until you sit on them.) >>> >>> (the "proper" solution is to boot OpenBSD (inc. off a CDROM >>> or floppy), partition and format the media, install MBR, install >>> kernel, install /boot, install PBR. If you can do that without >>> error, you can probably skip the OpenBSD install script, just >>> manually copy files onto your target machine. i.e., not worth >>> the effort, probably. I know how to do it, and I rarely do so >>> without error). >>> >> >> Hey Nick, >> >> Inspired by you (and the realization "hey, I've got a 20$ 4gig >> thumbdrive now because I'm in the FUTAR"), today I set about making >> myself one of these. I made a 2gig OpenBSD a partition, and a 2gig FAT >> i partition using OpenBSD's newfs_msdos. The trouble is, Windows Vista >> doesn't want to recognize it. It sees the partition, of course, but >> claims it's unformatted. I set the partition ID in the MBR to 0B >> initially, then to 0C, and then to 06 (which is what another flash >> drive that vista does recognize has on it) but none of these made >> Vista recognize it. I'm assuming the problem is that OpenBSD wrote the >> FAT wrong, so I'm wondering how it was that you formatted your drive. >> Did you just get windows to do it for you? >> >> -othernick > > Actually, it's a bug in windows. Whodda thunk? :) > > The problem is Windows sees a "removable" device, and it is ready for > multiple partitions...but it only seems to recognize the FIRST > partition as something than it could work with. So..it tries to make > sense of the OpenBSD partition, fails, and doesn't look past it to > see the Windows partition. > > > SO, the secret is to put your Windows partition on the flash media > first, then OpenBSD.
Oh. .. stupid Windows! Thanks for the tip, I'll try this tonight. -othernick
