Hi Scott,
I think if I were trying to set up a bootable Linux distribution on a
USB flash drive I would do this on a Linux machine. However, for your
entertainment, you might want to read Ted Landau's old MacFixIt column
(from April 2008) titled, "Create a Leopard Startup Flash Drive":
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080422095414936
Note that I haven't tried this myself, and have no idea whether it's
doable for Snow Leopard.
Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 11, 2010, at 06:57, Scott Howell wrote:
Hi Sandi,
Thanks for the clarification. If I unmount the drive, it no longer
can be referenced by the device node in /dev, which is interesting.
It is as though once unmounted, the OS forgets about it, but I
suspect it has something to do with the disk subsystem and how it
handles devices. Well I'll keep digging because the info is out
there somewhere . :)
THanks,
On Jan 4, 2001, at 3:18 PM, sandi sørensen wrote:
first of all, have never used fdisk under osx so i can be very wrong.
but when i have done it on linux i usually unmount the drive i
wanna fdisk and then takes contact with it from the dev folder.
Therefore i said as i did.
try eventually before you mess with it too see how huge it is with
fdisk.
/sandi
On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Sandi,
Sorry, I'm not clear on what you are saying here. The device, /
dev/disk1 does exist, but unlike a "normal" or static /dev file
system, I assume that perhaps this works more like the DevFS found
in some LInux distros? I have to admit that I am not that familiar
with the newer file systems, which is my fault for letting my
knowledge get rusty.
Can you please clarify what you mean?
THanks,
On Jan 4, 2001, at 1:41 PM, sandi sørensen wrote:
try getting a hold of it from /dev/
On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
James, I perhaps should be more clear.
The issue is I cannot find a way to address the device. To
explain further, the flash drive when mounted, shows up as /dev/
disk1s1. However, to properly address the device with fdisk,
the device must be umounted, but when attempting to address the
device by
fdisk /dev/disk1 I receive a "file not found" error. So, my
assumption is that the disk subsystem handles unmounted devices
differently than I gather most OpenBSD systems perhaps. I of
course do not know for sure and any thoughts you have would be
appreciated. The man page did not provide any information on how
to address the problem.
THanks,
On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:24 AM, James & Nash wrote:
Hi Scott,
You wrote:
Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set
the boot flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB
flash drive/Thumb drive? I want to creat a bootable usb stick
that I can load a small Linux distro on.
I haven't, but I will look into it for you if you like. In
theory, there should be no problem using fdisk as the Terminal
is pretty accessible with Voice Over.
TC
James
On 11 Jan 2010, at 02:01, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks,
Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set
the boot flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB
flash drive/Thumb drive? I want to creat a bootable usb stick
that I can load a small Linux distro on.
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