Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 4/8/11 5:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> It should go to the raw disk device, not a partition and you shouldn't
>>> need to format first.
>>
>> The reason I re-formatted it was that fdisk said
>> there was no valid partition table after dd-ing bootdisk.img onto
>> /dev/sdb .
>
> I thought small usb devices generally didn't have a partition table and
> just have one filesystem on the raw device. But I don't have a lot of
> experience with them. In any case the img file should have whatever
needs to be
> there.
<snip>
Nope, they do. As I mentioned in my build of the USB key install, I have
two partitions on the key, one that's 10M, and is FAT formatted, and the
rest of the 8G that's ext2.
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