On 03/22/2012 09:43 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:23:30 -0700 > Denis Heidtmann<denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> dijo: > >> I have a usb stick ready to load ubuntu 11.10 onto a netbook. Some >> comments on the web indicate that the install only works with fat 16 >> format on the stick. That may be old information, but in case of >> trouble I would like to know the format of the stick I have. How do I >> determine if it is 16 or 32? It is an msdos file system according to >> the info displayed in the file browser gui. > > The best GUI for figuring out how your disks are set up is > Palimpsest. Unfortunately, different distros label it variously in the > application menu, and some don't install it at all. If you can't find > it in the launch menu just launch it from the command line as > "palimpsest." If that doesn't work, then "sudo aptitude install > palimpsest," or equivalent if using other than debian package > management. > > Having said that, if you want to make a bootable USB stick, shouldn't > you be burning the ISO image to the stick rather than copying it to the > stick? Wait ... that's what that utility you needed and couldn't get to > because of "dash" and stuph was all about, right? You probably have > that figured out by now. Never mind. > > Almost all USB sticks come from the factory formatted FAT32. I would > have said "all," except that my recent acquisition from Fry's was NTFS > (yes, really). > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
You need to make a bootable usb :) -- Benjamin Kerensa "I am what I am because of Team Lead, Ubuntu Oregon who we all are" - Ubuntu bkere...@ubuntu.com http://ubuntu-oregon.org http://benjaminkerensa.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug