Hi there,
Lao Yu said : > Hi, > > in advance I ask for lenience if these questions have been discussed > before. The access to archived messages b monthly files is a bit > troublesome... There is a solition for this. If you search using the form in this page... http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/wiki/Support > > I want to format a 16GB USB stick and use it to boot my Sony Vaio > laptop. I believe I follow the instructions to make a liveUSB > installation on the pure:dyne site by the letter. I'm running Fedora10 to > do the preparation of the USB device with these problems: > > (1) the suggested installation / update of some utilities using a 'sudo > aptitude update' command fails with the message 'command not found' maybe you dont have sudo command? I do not know if Fedora is using sudo to execute commands as superuser(root) try su - give the *root* password and then you are root. At this prompt try aptitude update. If this doesnt work try apt-get update instead. > (2) the suggested GUI method fails - the command 'sudo gparted' > generates a 'command not found' error Again i think you have no sudo command. Maybe I am wrong. > (3) the command line method fails because at the end after the 'w' > command I get the message > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table > > WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid > argument. > I think this is message is just warning. Try the above and let us know how it goes! a > Until that point the command line approach rendered the results > documented on the site... > > Are the first 2 commands 'debian only'? If they are and there are Fedora > equivalents I'd be glad to know... > > Best regards > Jurgen > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > | |'`'. .''. .. | ' .' '. .` '. |-----`.----.'------- '------------. | '..' `. ' | `..' | --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
