Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-28 Thread David Christensen
On 05/28/2017 02:35 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 27/05/2017 à 22:58, David Christensen a écrit : I bought a SanDisk 32GB Micro SDHC card for my Android phone a while back. It came with a Micro SDHC to SD adapter, and the adapter has an unmarked switch in the same style and location of the wri

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/05/2017 à 22:58, David Christensen a écrit : I bought a SanDisk 32GB Micro SDHC card for my Android phone a while back. It came with a Micro SDHC to SD adapter, and the adapter has an unmarked switch in the same style and location of the write-protect switches on my other SD cards. It i

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread David Christensen
On 05/27/2017 11:30 AM, Mark Copper wrote: Does you SD card and/or SD card adapter have a write-protect tab or other such mechanism? If so, put it in the unlocked position. The micro SD cards used in phones don't appear to have such mechanisms, but your point is well taken; viz. I've not adeq

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread David Christensen
On 05/27/2017 10:18 AM, Fungi4All wrote: From: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Please do, but release it under a license that allows us to read it on-line for free and then decide if we want to buy it. Only Greeks provide you with free gifts if you are a heroic Thracian city. For everything else th

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread Mark Copper
> > Does you SD card and/or SD card adapter have a write-protect tab or other > such mechanism? If so, put it in the unlocked position. The micro SD cards used in phones don't appear to have such mechanisms, but your point is well taken; viz. I've not adequately checked the hardware path (MB, car

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread JPlews
On 27/05/17 18:18, Fungi4All wrote: > But while it gives you a long error message in another system it notifies > google of what that system is and which android user is attempting it. How? Please provide citation(s). That's my shot on science fiction, but you wouldn't think they are that e

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread JPlews
On 26/05/17 20:52, Mark Copper wrote: Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. I have returned 2 cards from this state, dd has never failed me but needs extra steps to remove both places GTP is stori

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread Fungi4All
From: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com On 05/26/2017 03:23 PM, Fungi4All wrote: > I think google locks the mbr so no other system can ever use it again. How? Please provide citation(s). I am kidding, but you may want to try this straight off your debian repository or the latest from its developers htt

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 05/26/2017 03:23 PM, Fungi4All wrote: I think google locks the mbr so no other system can ever use it again. How? Please provide citation(s). But while it gives you a long error message in another system it notifies google of what that system is and which android user is attempting it.

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 05/26/2017 12:52 PM, Mark Copper wrote: Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. Does you SD card and/or SD card adapter have a write-protect tab or other such mechanism? If so, put it in the unlo

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread Fungi4All
From: mlcop...@gmail.com Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. Is it still functional in android? I think google locks the mbr so no other system can ever use it again. But while it gives you a long e

unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Copper
Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. Here's how gdisk sees it: gdisk -l /dev/sdc GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT:

Re: Upgrade and repartition advice

2005-07-18 Thread Chris Lale
Ken Januski wrote: Thanks for your sound suggestions. Unfortunately I don't currently have a CD burner so I knew that I wasn't going to get far with that strategy. Eventually I used Knoppix parted to set the Windows partition as ext3fs and just installed Sarge there. So now I have that and

Re: Upgrade and repartition advice

2005-07-17 Thread Chris Lale
ade to Sarge. Is there a non-destructive way to add a partition? My current / partition of 4G is running out of room though my /usr partition is only 30% full and is 1 G. The recovered space is 5G. I'd like to be able to non-destructively expand the /partition into it. I assume it makes mos

Upgrade and repartition advice

2005-07-16 Thread Ken Januski
a non-destructive way to add a partition? My current / partition of 4G is running out of room though my /usr partition is only 30% full and is 1 G. The recovered space is 5G. I'd like to be able to non-destructively expand the /partition into it. I assume it makes most sense to repartition

Re: lossless repartition of NTFS

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
partition magic 4.0 + will do it..can shrink that ntfs drive down..and make an EXT2 drive ..of course pqmagic isn't free.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services

lossless repartition of NTFS

1999-10-26 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, There is an NT computer with 3Gb NTFS single partition. We want to chop out of it a piece for Linux partition. Is there a tool/procedure (fips cn not do that) that will manage to do that? NTFS disk is only 0.5 Gb full. Thanks, Sasha.

Re: newbie² in trouble: installation failshello there, (please forgive my poor English)I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids...I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk andfloppy, or reinstall the system:I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to bootfrom hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired ofdownloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new andordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for mycreative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect).After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (whatwould allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a bootdisk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation.I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave itup. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(ipartitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stoppedbooting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Then icould only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the wholeinstallation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescuedisk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescuefloppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw thefloppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, thisone didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the samepoint).So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'musing the right floppies?how can i configure my CR-563creative labs in the installation program?what is this message when i bootfrom a boot-floppy:'unable to open an initial console'?here are some technical details: MB: Sis85c47,BIOS: Award v 4.50G,12MBram, SB16 with CR-563B CDROM (proprietary), linuxver: Debian 2.1, kernel

1999-08-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Holy smoke! I didn't know one could get that much into a Subject header!!! -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_

newbie² in trouble: installation failshello there, ( please forgive my poor English)I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids...I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk andfloppy, or reinstall the system:I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to bootfrom hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired ofdownloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new andordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for mycreative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect).After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (whatwould allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a bootdisk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation.I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave it up. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(i partitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stopped booting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Then i could only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the whole installation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at 'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescue disk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescue floppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw the floppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, this one didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4 disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the same point).So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'musing the right floppies? how can i configure my CR-563 creative labs in the installation program? what is this message when i boot from a boot-floppy:'unable to open an initial console'?here are some technical details: MB: Sis85c47,BIOS: Award v 4.50G,12MBram, SB16 with CR-563B CDROM (proprietary), linuxver: Debian 2.1, kernel

1999-08-03 Thread Mike Bulmer
>hello there, (please forgive my poor English) Hi Damiaan No need, Your English is very good. I don't know anything about your cdrom, but I do have allot Of experience with bad disks. Try A different disk and redownload resc1440.bin and rawrite it again it may have gotten corrupted ( con

Re: Repartition swap?

1999-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Partition Magic 4.0 ($-ware) will do this. The CD-ROM has some files you can copy to a floppy which is bootable (DOS), so you don't need a Windows OS to use it. I recently used it to wipe Win98 off my HD and repartition it all for Linux, including chaning the size of the swap part

Repartition swap?

1999-06-06 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, Is there a way to repartition the swap space? I think I don't need that much swap, and want to squeeze out some extra partition for filesystem. The whole filesystem is on an extended partition (the primary partition is a DOS system) and I did not create logical drives of it, s

Re: Repartition

1999-03-08 Thread homega
defaults0 2 /dev/hda6 /usr/local ext2defaults0 2 /dev/hda7 /varext2defaults0 2 For all the above you will need a boot disk with which to run fdisk, repartition, and then replacing the filesystem. A more secure way to do this would be

Re: Re: Repartition

1999-03-07 Thread Mark Yobb
A rough step by step would help me out a whole bunch. Thanks MT

Re: Repartition

1999-03-07 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Mark Yobb wrote: > > Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is > not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software > should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without > losing anything a long time ago but I am quite

Re: Repartition

1999-03-07 Thread homega
Mark Yobb dixit: > Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is > not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software > should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without > losing anything a long time ago but I am quite sure th

Repartition

1999-03-07 Thread Mark Yobb
Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without losing anything a long time ago but I am quite sure this was a DOS app. Thanks, MT

2.0 upgrade after poor cp and repartition

1998-07-19 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
It mostly went well. Thank you for the rescue floppy Only 3 things went badly. The rescue floppy cured whatever it was that I did wrong with lilo. There wasn't anything in /root except the default installed scripts. It would be nice to know where to get another copy of those. The backup of /

Re: Repartition Format

1997-07-29 Thread Jim Pick
> I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Assuming you want to format it as an ext2fs partition, you need to use the "mke2fs" program to do that. As far as I know, you can only do this from Linux. The Debian installation disks can format your partition as one of the install ste

Re: Repartition Format

1997-07-29 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I: (a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot

Repartition Format

1997-07-28 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I: (a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot Linu

Re: Is it crucial to use cfdisk to repartition

1996-12-24 Thread Walter Tautz
Thanks for the advice. I essentially planned on moving everything I wanted to keep under some directory under / and wipe out the other directories. i.e remove the file system. BTW, I seem to be getting two copies of posts, including yours. Also, I am curious as to why there is no `Reply to' fiel

Re: Is it crucial to use cfdisk to repartition

1996-12-23 Thread Bruce Perens
You don't have to use cfdisk, but you _do_ have to wipe out the filesystem. Various people have reported some success with installing Debian _over_ Slackware, but if you do that there will be files left behind from the old system that will never be cleaned up, etc. We don't support upgrading on top

Re: Is it crucial to use cfdisk to repartition

1996-12-23 Thread Martin Konold
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Walter Tautz wrote: Hi Walter, > by slackware. I take it that one can skip the `initialization' step and > simply use the existing partitions or is it advised that I repartition > using cfdisk? There is no immediate need for repartitioning with cfdisk. If

Is it crucial to use cfdisk to repartition

1996-12-23 Thread Walter Tautz
I am thinking about installing debian over slackware, but I don't want to repartion the drive. The drive was partitioned with the program used by slackware. I take it that one can skip the `initialization' step and simply use the existing partitions or is it advised that I reparti