Filesystem needs to be fat32 or fat16. I just mention this because someone said NTFS. Fedora has a web page listing several ways of loading the flash key, all much more automated than gparted. Cheers -- Rick On January 7, 2016 8:57:35 AM EST, linux-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca wrote: >Send Linux mailing list submissions to > linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > linux-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > >You can reach the person managing the list at > linux-owner [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Linux digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO image? > (Robert P. J. Day) > 2. Re: how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO > image? (Shawn H Corey) > 3. Re: how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO > image? (Robert P. J. Day) > 4. Re: how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO > image? (James) > 5. Re: how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO > image? (Robert P. J. Day) > 6. Re: how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO > image? (ProfJCNash) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) >From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> >To: Ottawa Linux Users Group <linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> >Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get at > an ISO image? >Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1601061634250.7005@localhost> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > i'm feeling like an idiot right now so i'm just going to ask ... i >have a bunch of 8G USB drives that i want to format to contain an ISO >image of RHEL 7 for a class tomorrow where students will plug in the >drive into a windows box, then install RHEL 7 in either vmware player >or virtualbox. sounds simple, right? > > so what is the recipe for formatting the USB drives properly? > > i'm doing this on fedora 22, and i obviously want the combination of >fdisk and mkfs that lets me format, pop out the USB drive, then plug >it back in and have it automount, just as a sanity check. > > i've tried various combinations of fdisk partition types and mkfs, >and i have yet to get to the point where, after running something >like mkfs.vfat, i can remove the drive, then plug it back in and have >it recognized. > > so what's the secret? first, in fdisk, what partition type should i >set the partition to? and once i do that, write and quit, which >variation of "mkfs" should i run? > > this really shouldn't be that hard, but i just can't make it work. > >rday > >-- > >======================================================================== >Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, >CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > >Twitter: >http://twitter.com/rpjday >LinkedIn: >http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >======================================================================== > > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 17:01:12 -0500 >From: Shawn H Corey <shawnhcorey [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get > at an ISO image? >Message-ID: <20160106170112.18e0d33c@sage> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) >"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > >> so what's the secret? > >Usually, I use `gparted`. It's a graphical disk partitioner and >formatter. Downloadable as a package in most distros. > >http://gparted.org/ > > >-- >Don't stop where the ink does. > Shawn > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 17:06:16 -0500 (EST) >From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> >To: Shawn H Corey <shawnhcorey [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >Cc: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get > at an ISO image? >Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1601061703090.5735@localhost> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Shawn H Corey wrote: > >> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) >> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: >> >> > so what's the secret? >> >> Usually, I use `gparted`. It's a graphical disk partitioner and >> formatter. Downloadable as a package in most distros. >> >> http://gparted.org/ > > apparently, there's something more subtle going on. i'm using a >hand-rolled kernel of my own, using fedora's .config as a starting >point. and that's the one that's failing mysteriously. > > i reboot to the official fedora kernel, and everything is cool. but >i have no idea why. all the appropriate loadable modules are there, >i've configured in support for all MS filesystem types, etc. > > something weird happening here. > >rday > >-- > >======================================================================== >Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, >CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > >Twitter: >http://twitter.com/rpjday >LinkedIn: >http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >======================================================================== > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 22:21:14 -0500 >From: James <bjlockie [ at ] lockie [ dot ] ca> >To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get > at an ISO image? >Message-ID: <568DD9AA [ dot ] 90500 [ at ] lockie [ dot ] ca> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > > >On 2016-01-06 05:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Shawn H Corey wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) >>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: >>> >>>> so what's the secret? >>> Usually, I use `gparted`. It's a graphical disk partitioner and >>> formatter. Downloadable as a package in most distros. >>> >>> http://gparted.org/ >> apparently, there's something more subtle going on. i'm using a >> hand-rolled kernel of my own, using fedora's .config as a starting >> point. and that's the one that's failing mysteriously. >> >> i reboot to the official fedora kernel, and everything is cool. >but >> i have no idea why. all the appropriate loadable modules are there, >> i've configured in support for all MS filesystem types, etc. >> >> something weird happening here. >> >> rday >What is the error? >So it boots if you put the official kernel on the USB? >Maybe you have something as a module that needs to be compiled in. > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 5 >Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 04:38:14 -0500 (EST) >From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> >To: James <bjlockie [ at ] lockie [ dot ] ca> >Cc: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get > at an ISO image? >Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1601070435300.18626@localhost> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, James wrote: > >> >> >> On 2016-01-06 05:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Shawn H Corey wrote: >> > >> > > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) >> > > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: >> > > >> > > > so what's the secret? >> > > Usually, I use `gparted`. It's a graphical disk partitioner and >> > > formatter. Downloadable as a package in most distros. >> > > >> > > http://gparted.org/ >> > apparently, there's something more subtle going on. i'm using a >> > hand-rolled kernel of my own, using fedora's .config as a starting >> > point. and that's the one that's failing mysteriously. >> > >> > i reboot to the official fedora kernel, and everything is cool. >but >> > i have no idea why. all the appropriate loadable modules are there, >> > i've configured in support for all MS filesystem types, etc. >> > >> > something weird happening here. >> > >> > rday > >> What is the error? >> So it boots if you put the official kernel on the USB? >> Maybe you have something as a module that needs to be compiled in. > > the failure is simply a failure to automount the NTFS filesystem on >the USB drive on insertion. i configured and built my new kernel based >off of the standard RH kernel and config file, and i tried as much as >possible to incorporate every feature and loadable module in the >original, but auto-mounting under the new kernel doesn't work. > > if i return to the official RH fedora kernel, no problem. i *seem* >to have all the proper modules selected and built and ready to go. >it's just a little puzzling and i'm going to keep poking around. > >rday > >-- > >======================================================================== >Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, >CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > >Twitter: >http://twitter.com/rpjday >LinkedIn: >http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >======================================================================== > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 6 >Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:57:25 -0500 >From: ProfJCNash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get > at an ISO image? >Message-ID: <568E6EC5 [ dot ] 9090208 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > >Is this possibly a change in the NTFS structure that Microsoft doesn't >document? Though Robert suggests the drive works under an older kernel >which would suggest otherwise. > >I know I've experienced a corrupted USB disk that was NTFS format. Had >to fire up a very stale Win7 to run the checkdisk and fix. Then I saved >the data and reformatted to ext4. > >NTFS seems to be a continuing irritant to Linux. > >Cheers, JN > > >On 16-01-07 04:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, James wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 2016-01-06 05:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Shawn H Corey wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) >>>>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> so what's the secret? >>>>> Usually, I use `gparted`. It's a graphical disk partitioner and >>>>> formatter. Downloadable as a package in most distros. >>>>> >>>>> http://gparted.org/ >>>> apparently, there's something more subtle going on. i'm using a >>>> hand-rolled kernel of my own, using fedora's .config as a starting >>>> point. and that's the one that's failing mysteriously. >>>> >>>> i reboot to the official fedora kernel, and everything is cool. >but >>>> i have no idea why. all the appropriate loadable modules are there, >>>> i've configured in support for all MS filesystem types, etc. >>>> >>>> something weird happening here. >>>> >>>> rday >> >>> What is the error? >>> So it boots if you put the official kernel on the USB? >>> Maybe you have something as a module that needs to be compiled in. >> >> the failure is simply a failure to automount the NTFS filesystem on >> the USB drive on insertion. i configured and built my new kernel >based >> off of the standard RH kernel and config file, and i tried as much as >> possible to incorporate every feature and loadable module in the >> original, but auto-mounting under the new kernel doesn't work. >> >> if i return to the official RH fedora kernel, no problem. i *seem* >> to have all the proper modules selected and built and ready to go. >> it's just a little puzzling and i'm going to keep poking around. >> >> rday >> > > >------------------------------ > >Subject: Digest Footer > >_______________________________________________ >Linux mailing list >Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > >------------------------------ > >End of Linux Digest, Vol 133, Issue 4 >************************************* -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. 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