Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:36:00
Message-Id: 20140902083540.182ae359@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB by Dale
1 On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:23:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
2
3 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
4 > > /dev/sdb1 * 0 389119 194560 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
5 > >
6 >
7 > I don't know if it matters or not but on one of my sticks, I get this:
8 >
9 > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
10 > /dev/sde1 * 1 3915775 1957887+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
11 >
12 > Mine is FAT32 where yours is NTFS. Could that difference cause this
13 > problem?
14
15 No, it's just fdisk trying to guess the type of a filesystem that isn't
16 actually there. I've just run it over 7 distro ISOs and got "Hidden
17 HPFS/NTFS" for 5 of them.
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21 Neil Bothwick
22
23 Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.

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Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>