On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 08:15 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Mikkel, > > > I find it strange that any drive of that size can not be formatted > > FAT32. > > I'm equally unresolved. These 2 USB thumb drives can't be formatted as > FAT 32. I tried many times in past on FC3 box running; > > - fdisk to set the FS as FAT32 and then formatted it with vfat > - mkfs -t FAT32 > > "fdisk -l" only showed them as FAT16. Would fdisk can't recognize > FAT32? > > > > I could see where the BIOS might have a problem if it is > > looking for a specific signature at the start of the drive. I would > > think you could get around it for Grub by installing to the boot > > record of the active partition instead of the MBR. > > Could you pleae explain in more detail how to make it? Tks. > > > > I have no idea > > why they wouldn't format as FAT32 though. That seems really strange > > to me. But I have not used that brand, so maybe there is something > > strange about them. > > > They worked on FC3 without problem either for storage or for running > "Linux on pendrive". They booted on FC3 and the OS running on them > worked similar to the OS running on HD or Live CD ---- would you please learn to use man pages... man mkfs man mkfs.vfat mkfs -t FAT32 # isn't a valid option Craig
