Re: [Trinux-talk] Harddrive Format

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It should work.  However, the devil is in the details.

What modules did you load?

What is the dd command line?

What are you doing after the dd finishes, that causes you to believe that 
the dd failed?

If you hope to use the disk as a filesystem, then the image you are 
putting on the disk must be a fully formed filesystem.  You should be able 
to test the image with a mount -o loop command before you do the dd.  The 
partition type should be set to match the type of filesystem.

More info would help.

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Richard Thomas wrote:

> Good morning all...
> 
> I have a newbie question, sorry.
> 
> I am using cfdisk to create a partition
> on a harddrive. I select the default
> type as Linux and then write the
> partition table. However, I am not able
> to then mount the partition under
> Trinux. I load what I think are the
> appropriate modules. I have even tried
> changing the type to NTFS with no luck.
> What I am trying to do is create a
> partition that I can write a 6.5GB image
> file to using dd. I previously tried
> this with VFAT, but ran into the 2GB
> file size limit. Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Richard Thomas
> 
> 
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