On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Hi,
Hi, I don't know what happened, but your msg _finaly_ showed up in my inbox. Strange how it was delayed for so long.. > Lee wrote: > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > > "normal" flash drive again? > > You have to delete the partitions of the USB stick which came with > the ISO. > Then you create one or more partitions. > Then you format them to a writable filesystem each. > > If it shall serve for file exchange with MS-Windows or Macs, then you > probably want just one partition with FAT as filesystem. > > I would do the first and second step by program "fdisk" and the third > step by program "mkfs.fat". Yes. That's the answer. I was missing the fdisk bit and mkfs wasn't working for me. Or at least not working until I did the fdisk :) > In hindsight it would of course have been advisable to make a copy > of the USB stick to an image file before putting the netinst ISO onto it. > Assuming that the USB stick is /dev/sdc and you home directory offers > enough space for the size of the USB stick this would have been something > like: > > dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1M of="$HOME"/usb_stick.img > > Later you would put it back onto the USB stick the same way as you did > with the netinst ISO image. Thanks for that, but all I was using this thumb drive for was putting movies on it & plugging it into a traver router so I could watch movies on a TV with no ads. In other words, there's nothing on the thumb drive that isn't expendable. Thanks, Lee
