Re: Problem with flash drive - SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013-06-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
n 06/22/2013 11:56 PM Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 06/21/2013 04:00 AM, Klaus wrote: Ethan, when you create a new partition table on the device, then the kernel needs to know about it. With a flash memory card, just unplug and re-plug it. You don't need to run fdisk first, since you copy an e

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-23 Thread Klaus
On 23/06/13 04:56, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: rosenberg:/media/bkup# fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3864 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O siz

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-22 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 06/21/2013 04:00 AM, Klaus wrote: Ethan, when you create a new partition table on the device, then the kernel needs to know about it. With a flash memory card, just unplug and re-plug it. You don't need to run fdisk first, since yo

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-21 Thread Linux-Fan
On 06/21/2013 01:22 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear list - > > I am trying to copy FreeDOS to a flash drive. I can't make it work. [...] > Copy FreeDOS: > > dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdb1 > 63488+0 records in > 63488+0 records out > 32505856 bytes (33

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-21 Thread ken
On 06/21/2013 12:29 AM Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Ken - Tried what you said, but I cannot make it work. dd if=/home/ethan/DOSutil/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdb 63488+0 records in 63488+0 records out 32505856 bytes (33 MB) copied, 0.447414 s, 72.7 MB/s At this point you can try

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-21 Thread Klaus
Ethan, when you create a new partition table on the device, then the kernel needs to know about it. With a flash memory card, just unplug and re-plug it. You don't need to run fdisk first, since you copy an entire disk image, this comes with partition table and all. Is your mounting read-only

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Ken - Tried what you said, but I cannot make it work. Here is what I did: fdisk /dev/sdb Command (m for help): d Selected partition 1 Command (m for help): Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3864 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors Units

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-20 Thread ken
On 06/20/2013 07:22 PM Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - I am trying to copy FreeDOS to a flash drive. I can't make it work. This is what I have done - Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes 125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Input/output error It might be a software issue only. I don't remember the messages I got, when an USB stick was borked. A long time ago, when I formatted a new INTENSO USB stick, it gets broken. They said the controller gets broken, because I kept it connected, while turning the computer on an

Problem with flash drive

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - I am trying to copy FreeDOS to a flash drive. I can't make it work. This is what I have done - Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes 125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (lo