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Solution to extra space with Windows..



I think I have a working solution to Windows not recognizing an extra partition on the USB drive. (http://live.debian.net/manual/stable/html/live-manual/the-basics.en.html#190)

Partition the drive in two.
The first partition is a Fat32 partition for Windows/Linux storage
The second partition should be large enough to hold the live iso file. I used EXT3 as the filesystem (Doesn't matter).

Image the iso to the new second partition:
dd if=live.iso of=/dev/sdb2

The last and most important bit is to turn on the boot flag for the second partition.

In windows the new second partition is ignored. In linux it comes up as a CD-rom image.

This can all done with parted or fdisk/mkfs etc..
Hope this helps..


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