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Hello, I have some 8GB USB keys and I wish to put a bootable Debian installer image AND a bunch of other files (documents, Virtualbox, more ISO images etc). I've dd'd an ISO image to a stick, which is fine. Now, reading the manual at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en it says: " The hybrid image on the stick does not occupy all the storage space, so it may be worth considering using the free space to hold firmware files or packages or any other files of your choice. This could be useful if you have only one stick or just want to keep everything you need on one device. Create a second, FAT partition on the stick, mount the partition and copy or unpack the firmware onto it. "However I am getting some errors when I try to do this. I tried first with a real USB stick and Ubuntu 12.04 system, and then with Debian Wheezy VM with an 8GB additional virtual disk attached. The results are the same: root@debian2:/home/brian# fdisk /dev/sdb WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders, total 16777216 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3f0ba885 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 0 1323007 661504 0 Empty /dev/sdb2 1079800 1080695 448 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) Then: root@debian2:/home/brian# parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Warning: /dev/sdb contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Is this a GPT partition table? Yes/No? yes Error: Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt. Try making a fresh table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions. (parted) Now, fdisk *does* actually allow me to create a third primary partition - but is that the right thing to do, given that fdisk seems to think it's a GPT disk? Also, it seems odd that the sdb2 partition is in the middle of the range of blocks for sdb1? Thanks, Brian. |