formatting an flash drive

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, On this same topic what is the largest normal USB flash drive that 
exists?  The reason I say normal is there are now drives that allow the 
installation of software directly on the drive calling themselves u3 drives 
that work under windows.  I want a large normal none u3 drive because I want 
to install grml on it once the spelling issues have been fixed.  I contacted 
grml and they told me that this issue should be fixed in the next release.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: formatting an flash drive


> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Since you seem to insist on using windows here, you'd probably want to
> use diskpart, and make the first partition be a ntfs partition on the
> first 1G of the flash disk, leaving the rest empty. Then, reboot, and
> format the first partition from my computer. Actually, since the first
> partition would be 1G in size, you could probably use fat32 if you
> wanted to. Then of course, reboot into gnu/linux, partition the rest
> with cfdisk as linux native, reboot I suppose, and run mke2fs on it.
>
> A far better way in my opinion would be to do all your partitioning
> with cfdisk from gnu/linux, and then run mke2fs on the linux
> partition, and either run mkntfs/mkdosfs from gnu/linux on the first, or
> format it from within windows as ntfs or fat32.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 04:03:50PM -0500, Glenn Ervin wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> Right now, I am using Windows and I have
>> a 2 GB flash drive.
>> I would like to format the first GB for Linux and the other GB for DOS,
>> probably FAT32.
>> I have a beta version of Partition Magic, 5.5 on my computer now, but I 
>> have
>> not been able to find the flash drive with PM.
>> Is there a good freeware anyware for this task?
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> - -- 
> web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org
> gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc
> skype: gregn1
> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first)
>
> - --
> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFF/F1C7s9z/XlyUyARAo8yAKCiEw3LK7qE9qd/Sh0cEoN3EKx7PQCfWzup
> O/35Klf46kuPBcxEth1N4OE=
> =zzKs
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>