Hi, Justin! It was great to meet you at Ohio Linux Fest! What throws the "cannot get drive geometry" error -- is it the Nexcopy USB Duplicator (https://www.nexcopy.com/usb-duplicator/) ? Is it complaining about not being able to read the source ( ~1.5 GB ISO image on a USB drive) ?
What does the partition table on the source USB drive look like? You should be able to list the partition table with "fdisk -l" (see http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-list-disk-partitions-command/ for an example). See also http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/fdisk_partitioning.html HTH, Aleksey On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Justin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Every time my company releases a new version of its software, someone > creates a ~1.5GB ISO image of it using *genisoimage -J -R -D -V > [volume_name]*, and then I use a Nexcopy USB duplicator to burn the ISO > to 2GB flash drives. > > This process no longer works; it produces a "cannot get drive geometry" > error. According to gparted, it's b ecause the partition table is bogus - > these flash drives are created with a 7.34GB partition, which obviously > isn't possible on a 2GB flash drive. Nexcopy's support insists that this is > because of the way the ISO was created even though known good ISOs from > other versions produce the same error. > > I'm supposed to "Check the partition size...and then re-master the ISO so > they all match. So if you have a 1.2GB CD-ROM partition size, you need to > have a 1.2GB ISO file." > > I don't know enough about the ins and outs of genisoimage or ISO files to > know if this is accurate or not or how I would do it. Any insight would be > much appreciated. > > --- > *Justin Smith* > IT Analyst > MIM Software, Inc. > https://www.mimsoftware.com > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Need CFEngine training? Email [email protected]
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