Live USB-stick format

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> I want F9 on a USB stick.  It's 8GB, and comes with a few files concerned with 
> using it on windows, so I don't really care whether they survive or not.
> 
> Most of my hardware is not so young, and doesn't boot off usb sticks.  
> However, the EeePC should do - it does from a Mandriva flash drive.  It lists 
> the drive, in BIOS, enclosed in [ ] which seems to mean that it is not 
> bootable, so I looked at the drive with fdisk.  It says
> 
>  Disk /dev/sdc1: 8120MB                                                    
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B                                 
> Partition Table: loop  
> 
> and that 'The flag 'boot' is not available for loop disk labels'
> 
> Obviously I've done something wrong, but what?
> 
> Anne
> 
Dumb question - did you run "fdisk -l /dev/sdc" or
"fdisk -l /dev/sdc1"? The first form is the correct one, and the 
second one will give strange results. From the output it looks like 
you used the second form.

Mikkel
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