Re: [Devil-linux-develop] initrd / zisofs

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Diego Torres wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:00:40AM -0500, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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>>>>I format the USB stick with FAT16, transfer the MBR and syslinux 
>>>>bootloader.
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>>>Question: That means that usb sticks with more than 512Mb can't be used ? 
>>>Why don't we use FAT32?
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>>No. The limit of FAT16 is 2 GB. You can use FAT32 if you want, I just 
>>"suggested" FAT16
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>btw, using fat16 truncates the file devil-linux to "devil-li"
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The problem is fixed.
I mounted the USB stick on the script witht the FS "auto", which most 
likely resulted on being mounted as "msdos" on your machine.
I explicitly set it now to mount with "vfat", which supports the long 
filenames.

>more important thing, it doesn't work for me. the new system (iso+mbr) doesn't boot on my system.
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>did someone test it?
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Yes it worked just fine on my box.

Heiko