On 03/23/12 08:52, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> >>> Indeed. That is what I did, using Startup Disk Creator. But does that >>> mean that the question of the format on the usb stick is irrelevant? That >>> when it is made bootable the original format is gone? (I am not being >>> sarcastic here--just ignorant.) >> >> Denis, >> >> If you used an .iso file and put it on the flash drive (dd or cdrecord) >> then the file system is ISO9660; read-only just like a CD-ROM or DVD. >> >> Rich > > > This is very confusing to me. When I insert the stick that the Startup > Disk Creator wrote, Ubuntu tells me that it is a 4.0 GB file system of type > msdos. So I assumed that the .iso existed as a file (or folder) on the > stick, but the stick's file system was determined by the format. What > Startup Disk Creator did was put on the stuff to make it bootable (in > addition to copying the .iso file).
I suspect that Creator wiped any existing filesystem and created an entirely new filesystem. It warned you about overwriting the contents of the stick, correct? It possibly created a new partition table too. After that, it probably installed grub or syslinux, copied the iso to the filesystem, and configured grub or syslinux to boot the iso. If you poke around in the mounted stick, you'll probably deduce what Creator did. galen -- Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
