[fedora-india] How to re-format readonly USB drive

2011-03-07 Thread Lakshmipathi.G
Hi - I have an USB drive formatted as readonly ISO9660 . I need to reformat it . I have tried normal mkfs. But they failed saying "read-only filesystem" . Then tried gparted, Its also not working,seems like not even detecting usb. Running from command line "parted -l" says- Warning: Unable to op

Re: [fedora-india] How to re-format readonly USB drive

2011-03-07 Thread Debayan Banerjee
On 7 March 2011 16:33, Lakshmipathi.G wrote: > Hi - > I have an USB drive formatted as readonly ISO9660 . I need to reformat it . mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdb -- Debayan Banerjee ___ india mailing list india@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: [fedora-india] How to re-format readonly USB drive

2011-03-07 Thread Lakshmipathi.G
No,mkfs is not working. I tried vfat,ext2,ext3 but everything fails . strace output - open("/dev/sr1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL) = -1 EROFS (Read-only file system) write(2, "mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/s"..., 35mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/sr1 ) = 35 exit_group(1) = ?

Re: [fedora-india] How to re-format readonly USB drive

2011-03-07 Thread Gaurav Menghani
Hi, On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Lakshmipathi.G wrote: > Hi - > I have an USB drive formatted as readonly ISO9660 . I need to reformat it > . I used the dd command to write a string of 'zeroes' spanning the entire drive (which will take some time). Then formatted it appropriately. Check the

Re: [fedora-india] How to re-format readonly USB drive

2011-03-07 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 16:33 +0530, Lakshmipathi.G wrote: > Hi - > I have an USB drive formatted as readonly ISO9660 . I need to reformat > it . I have tried normal mkfs. But they failed saying "read-only > filesystem" . Then tried gparted, Its also not working,seems like not > even detecting usb.

[fedora-india] Conf.kde.in 2011

2011-03-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Me, Runa and Kushal are participating in the conference. Details at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Conf.kde.in.2011 Rahul ___ india mailing list india@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india

Re: [fedora-india] Conf.kde.in 2011

2011-03-07 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > Me, Runa and Kushal are participating in the conference. Details at > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Conf.kde.in.2011 > > Rahul Hi! I'm in Bangalore and should be able to attend most of it. Please let me know if there are a

[fedora-india] [Fwd: Re: [Fedora Freemedia] #6429: Krishna Moorthy A from INDIA wants a i386 DVD.]

2011-03-07 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hello, Forwarded Message > From: krishna A > To: nob...@fedorahosted.org > Cc: Fedora Freemedia , > ankursi...@fedoraproject.org, freemedia-t...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: [Fedora Freemedia] #6429: Krishna Moorthy A from INDIA > wants a i386 DVD. > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2

Re: [fedora-india] How to re-format readonly USB drive

2011-03-07 Thread Lakshmipathi.G
Nothing seems to be working.I think, usb has some-kind of physical write protection switch (somewhere,which i don't know) on its hardware. (USB drive was one of my old data card - I give up for now - may be get back at this some time later. :)) .. thanks for all your suggestions and time. -- --

Re: [fedora-india] [Fwd: Re: [Fedora Freemedia] #6429: Krishna Moorthy A from INDIA wants a i386 DVD.]

2011-03-07 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > I've asked him to outline what he felt was easier in Ubuntu, so we could > see what Fedora is doing. I've forwarded the mail because it's a > consequence of us not being able to make Fedora available to people on > time. Had I managed to accep