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Gilles
2012-03-07
2013-04-05
  • Gilles

    Gilles - 2012-03-07

    Hello

    To further investigate why I fail creating a bootable CZ keydrive, I tried formating the keydrive in FAT32 before unzipping the ZIP file and running makeboot, but it fails:

    mkfs.vfat -n linux -F 32 -v /dev/sdb1

    sfdisk -c /dev/sdb 1 b (to set partition ID to W95 FAT32)
    fdisk -l /dev/sdb

    mkdir /mnt/usb
    mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/

    cd /tmp
    wget -c ???? (Check http://clonezilla.org/downloads/alternative/iso-zip-files.php)
    mv ???? cz.zip

    (apt-get install unzip)
    unzip cz.zip -d /mnt/usb

    cd /mnt/usb/utils/linux

    bash makeboot.sh /dev/sdb1
    /dev/sdb1: this doesn't look like a valid FAT filesystem

    Does someone know why? Which partition ID should I use?

    Thank you.

     
  • Gilles

    Gilles - 2012-03-07

    Reading through makeboot.sh, it seems like it expects "parted -s /dev/sdb1 print" to return either fat16|fat32|vfat, while it returns "Partition Table: msdos" although I used fdisk to set its ID to "W95 FAT32".

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2012-08-23

    Somehow I missed this post.
    Could you please tell me which version of fdisk are you using by running this command?
    fdisk -version

    Also, please run:
    parted -s /dev/sdb1 print

    then post the results.
    Thanks.

    Steven.

     

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