On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 03/22/2012 09:43 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > 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 > > > You need to make a bootable usb :) > > -- > Benjamin Kerensa > Indeed. That is what I did, using Startup Disk Creator. But does that mean that the question of the format on the usb stick is irrelevant? That when it is made bootable the original format is gone? (I am not being sarcastic here--just ignorant.) Thanks, -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
