Many thanks for your suggestions, Philip. > Try right-clicking on physdiskwrite.exe and setting the compatibility > mode to XP+SP3 (or just plain XP)...
That didn't help (nor did Win2000 mode etc). In fact, I can find no way at all of formatting the blank partition in Vista, even using diskpart - it just refuses because it's "removable media". > Turn off flow-control (no xon/xoff, no rts/cts). That didn't help either. I suspect the unformatted secondary partition may be the problem. Can anyone confirm that this must be done as a manual step to get astlinux running on a 4801? I can't find any reference to this in any of the documentation or mail archives. If so, it seems that using linux is the only way to do it. I'll give it a try when I get a chance. I'm suspicious that physdiskwrite created the first 128MB partition in seconds under windows but DD took 15 mins under Ubuntu (same hardware). Why would this be? -- Phil McKerracher www.mckerracher.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
