[PLUG] fat 16 or 32?

Benjamin Kerensa bkerensa at ubuntu.com
Fri Mar 23 06:54:36 UTC 2012


On 03/22/2012 09:43 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:23:30 -0700
> Denis Heidtmann<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>  dijo:
>
>> I have a usb stick ready to load ubuntu 11.10 onto a netbook.  Some
>> comments on the web indicate that the install only works with fat 16
>> format on the stick.  That may be old information, but in case of
>> trouble I would like to know the format of the stick I have.  How do I
>> determine if it is 16 or 32?  It is an msdos file system according to
>> the info displayed in the file browser gui.
>
> The best GUI for figuring out how your disks are set up is
> Palimpsest. Unfortunately, different distros label it variously in the
> application menu, and some don't install it at all. If you can't find
> it in the launch menu just launch it from the command line as
> "palimpsest." If that doesn't work, then "sudo aptitude install
> palimpsest," or equivalent if using other than debian package
> management.
>
> Having said that, if you want to make a bootable USB stick, shouldn't
> you be burning the ISO image to the stick rather than copying it to the
> stick? Wait ... that's what that utility you needed and couldn't get to
> because of "dash" and stuph was all about, right? You probably have
> that figured out by now. Never mind.
>
> Almost all USB sticks come from the factory formatted FAT32. I would
> have said "all," except that my recent acquisition from Fry's was NTFS
> (yes, really).
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You need to make a bootable usb :)

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