Re: memory stick
Juraj Ziegler wrote:
> Colin Cotter wrote:
>> Is the consensus that I need to reformat the stick then? I'm a bit
>> nervous about this because of the "paperweight" rumours, also this
>> seems like a strange solution as the stick works fine with Windows,
>> also it worked on my colleague's RedHat machine. It is a fairly
>> standard USB memory stick as far as I can see...
>
> Have not read the whole thread in detail, but I just can't imagine, why
> creating a new filesystem (the correct phrase for reformating :) on a
No, it isn't the correct phrase. Creating a file system reformats a
partition. Creating a new partition table reformats an entire drive. I
agree that mkfs shouldn't be a problem. In my case, I was actually trying
to figure out how to get grub onto it - which screwed up the MBR (or
whatever passes for an MBR on a singly partitioned USB stick). After that
I couldn't manage to get a usable (under both Windows & Linux) filesystem
onto it until I ran the HP utility.
--
derek
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