Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On 2016-10-20, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello the list! > > I have gotten myself all turned around and confused on this supposedly > simple topic, so I'm hoping for a little bit of advice. > > I have a USB stick I have previously used as a boot medium for Debian > installers

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

> My only slight worry is following the above instructions the partition > created on the stick was marked as "Linux". Really? Is that OK? The partition type is very rarely used (it's kind of an announce of the *purpose* of this partition, but the partition's content is always the one that

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Working both with Debian and Windows7PRO, I routinely use the default Debian disk utility (gnome-disks) to format and re-format all varieties of USB drives, including flash sticks and mechanical drives by WD, Seagate, and Toshiba. I format to FAT or VFAT. I have no difficulty transferring files

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:28:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: [...] > I went with vfat, but I'd like to resolve the question of exfat if > possible, out of curiosity. I was curious too, so I dropped the thing into my favourite search engine (no,

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 04:57:47PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > It's a 4GB stick and I am thinking of using all the space in a single > > partition. > > Assuming the USB stick is at /dev/sdb I'd do: > > % fdisk /dev/sdb > o > n RET RET RET RET > w > q > % mkfs.vfat

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:51:54AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 30 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > > So there is a major difference in the way Linux and windows handle > > > file naming. The file names look the same

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Le decadi 30 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > So there is a major difference in the way Linux and windows handle > > file naming. The file names look the same on both Linux and windows, > > but behind the scenes they are not. > You'd need more evidence to convince me of that.

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:36:57PM +0100, Mr Smiley wrote: > I have a satellite receiver that records to an external USB device > which has to be formatted to Fat32. Every few weeks it says it can't > find a compatible fat32 device. If I connect the

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Same here. Never had problems making disks in linux that I could use anywhere else. Did not think anyone could see it as a problem. Only extra option i sometimes add is dd to be able to remove usb install disks for deb On 20 Oct 2016 22:58, "Stefan Monnier" wrote: > >

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Le 20/10/2016 à 23:01, Joe a écrit : and Microsoft is unlikely to ever acknowledge the existence of not-invented-here filesystems. They already did : UDF. No, it is not limited to optical discs.

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On 10/20/2016 11:04 AM, Brian wrote: > Wiping the first megabyte is good advice - it will remove any trace > of previously installed Debian isohybrid images. But Windows machines > aren't thick on the ground here. Can I use a Linux machine? Will I > regret it if I do? On 10/20/2016 11:07 AM,

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:46:53 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 20:25:04 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:03:01 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > If a reformatted USB stick on Debian isn't "maximally compatible" > > > I could

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

> It's a 4GB stick and I am thinking of using all the space in a single > partition. Assuming the USB stick is at /dev/sdb I'd do: % fdisk /dev/sdb o n RET RET RET RET w q % mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 This has always worked well for me, for Windows and Mac OS X. [ IIUC using

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 20:25:04 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:03:01 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > If a reformatted USB stick on Debian isn't "maximally compatible" I > > could understand the steering towards using Windows for the operation. > > I don't have

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:03:01 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 19:42:51 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:04:12 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 10:21:59 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 19:42:51 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:04:12 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 10:21:59 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > On 10/20/2016 09:49 AM, Joe wrote: > > > > Simple but not trivial. Since you have used the

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:04:12 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 10:21:59 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > On 10/20/2016 09:49 AM, Joe wrote: > > > Simple but not trivial. Since you have used the phrase 'most > > > compatible' in the subject line, I'm afraid

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Le nonidi 29 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Joe a écrit : > Simple but not trivial. Since you have used the phrase 'most > compatible' in the subject line, I'm afraid I must recommend using > Windows. Windows is by far the fussiest about disc formats, and it > really can't argue if has done the job

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 10:21:59 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 10/20/2016 09:49 AM, Joe wrote: > > Simple but not trivial. Since you have used the phrase 'most > > compatible' in the subject line, I'm afraid I must recommend using > > Windows. > > +1 > > Use Linux 'dd' to wipe the first

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On 10/20/2016 09:49 AM, Joe wrote: > Simple but not trivial. Since you have used the phrase 'most > compatible' in the subject line, I'm afraid I must recommend using > Windows. +1 Use Linux 'dd' to wipe the first megabyte, plug the USB flash drive into a Windows machine, and use Windows to

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Fri 21 Oct 2016 at 01:11:10 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Can someone tell me what partition type I should select in cfdisk (or > what better tool I should use to partition) and what command I should > use to create a file system on the stick using my Jessie box, that I can > then write

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:11:10 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Thanks and sorry for the simple question! Google didn't turn up much > on this as most sticks come ready to use and there is less to be said > about "re-formatting" a stick after it's had an image written to it...

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello the list! > > I have gotten myself all turned around and confused on this supposedly > simple topic, so I'm hoping for a little bit of advice. > > I have a USB stick I have previously used as a boot medium for

Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Hello the list! I have gotten myself all turned around and confused on this supposedly simple topic, so I'm hoping for a little bit of advice. I have a USB stick I have previously used as a boot medium for Debian installers and live systems. Now I want to wipe it and repurpose it to being a