Have you tried writing binary.img to the disk, then moving the partiton to the right with GParted?
On 7/29/08, David Hautbois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I would like to have a fat32 partition for the datas (when I have to > work on friends w$ computers) > > method 1 (2 partitions) -> better > w$ only mount the first partition > So > sdb1 -> data > sdb2 -> live > how to restore binary.ing to sdb2 ? > I can keep free space after the first partition. > > method 2 (1big partition) > restore binary.img (400Mb) to the whole space (8Gb) > Because the live partition is fat32. > dd creates a partition with the same size of binary.img. > > Nobody needed to use his stick like this ? > > Thanks > > David. > > Ben Armstrong wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:24 +0100 >> Chris Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> (I'm confused about a few things here; why do you need it to be a fixed >>> size? >>> Also, why do you need it to be 1G?) >>> >>> The binary.img already contains partitioning information; you just need >>> to >>> "dd" it directly onto the target rather than fitting it on an existing >>> peratition. >>> >> >> The problem is that will write a short partition table to the key. It >> would be nice to automatically fix up the partition table after copying >> to free up the extra space (or else operate on the key directly, >> copying the live partition over and setting up the partition table with >> the correct geometry to begin with). This extra space is useful for >> other things, e.g. persistence. >> >> Ben >> -- >> ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] >> [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> debian-live-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel >> > > -- > Web site : http://david.hautbois.free.fr > Tablet users map : http://david.hautbois.free.fr/maps/index.php > > > > _______________________________________________ > debian-live-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel > _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
