On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:23:30 -0700 Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> dijo:
>I have a usb stick ready to load ubuntu 11.10 onto a netbook. Some >comments on the web indicate that the install only works with fat 16 >format on the stick. That may be old information, but in case of >trouble I would like to know the format of the stick I have. How do I >determine if it is 16 or 32? It is an msdos file system according to >the info displayed in the file browser gui. The best GUI for figuring out how your disks are set up is Palimpsest. Unfortunately, different distros label it variously in the application menu, and some don't install it at all. If you can't find it in the launch menu just launch it from the command line as "palimpsest." If that doesn't work, then "sudo aptitude install palimpsest," or equivalent if using other than debian package management. Having said that, if you want to make a bootable USB stick, shouldn't you be burning the ISO image to the stick rather than copying it to the stick? Wait ... that's what that utility you needed and couldn't get to because of "dash" and stuph was all about, right? You probably have that figured out by now. Never mind. Almost all USB sticks come from the factory formatted FAT32. I would have said "all," except that my recent acquisition from Fry's was NTFS (yes, really). _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
