The "splash screen" of the ISO showed all kinds of options to upgrade Flash sticks from 2008.1 on to 2009 Spring - but only for 8GB sticks!Ģ. Of course my 4GB Flash was now totally hosed, thanks to myself I made a backup before!ġ. tty0 showed errors about not found directories and files, obviously due to the error message about lack of space during transfer. I rebooted but did not get far - black screen with the cursor blinking in the upper left corner. Did so and my 2008.1 4G Flash was recognized! After mounting the Flash, backing up all config files, user accounts and Firefox user data it started the transfer of the new system.Īfter a while (8 minutes) the system showed an error, telling me there is not enough space on the device! Nevertheless it continued the routine and even told me that everything was successfully upgraded and I should reboot now. I punched in 'upgrade', hit ENTER and after some loading the system asked me to insert my Flash. I had to change the BIOS settings to boot from the new external drive et voilà : the ISO booted to the prompt!
I bit the banana and bought one of those nice and shiny external DVD reader/writer drives. Users with a 4GB Flash, do not use this ISO it will destroy your Flash! In particular, the ISO being only 700MB, the USB disk will probably report a capacity of 700BM, and I want to be able to get the 2GB back.Ĭan someone enlighten me on the workings of USB sticks and why capacity and formatting is not as straightforward as with standard hard disks?īTW: what's the proper En/Us word for this USB thing? “USB stickâ€, “USB keyâ€, “flash driveâ€, something else? So before “playing†with a USB stick again, I want to be sure there's a way back. At the fourth attempt or so (only one of which booted fine), the USB device stopped working beyond any hope of repair: it reported a ridiculously small capacity, an invalid partition table… Each USB distribution involved formatting the USB either FAT or Ext2, and installing on it.
#Geexbox ipartition tabl two drives Pc#
Last time I played with a USB key, for something other than storing data, was when I tried several distributions that boot on CD or USB (among which is GeeXboX) for my “salon†PC to become disk-less. Yesterday, I was going to dd the 2010beta One ISO to a 2GB USB stick to test it, but I did not.
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