[Discussion] USB installation

[Douglas Clark]

I have not had success with memory sticks larger than 2 GB in ECS, regardless of how it is formatted.

Perhaps others may have had a different experience.

Doug Clark




On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:58:28 -0500 Phil Parker wrote:
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>On 06/21/2010 at 10:14 PM, Kaya Imre <ki5 at nyu.edu> wrote:
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>>I just bought a 8GB HB memory stick and it works nicely on XP.
>>I would like to be able to use it also on WARP(4.5) and  eCS(1.14). Not
>>having done it before, I have no experience as to how to do this. I would
>>appreciate some (detailed) help for this endeavor.  TIA.
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>First, you need the latest USB stack and FAT32 support. (I use eCS 1.25+ and
>2.0RC7 with ecsmt and don't know how to do that on non-eCS 4.5.)
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>Assuming those are in place, Jan van Wijk provided the following recipe on the
>dfsee-support list back in March 2007:
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>>To make a FAT32 memory stick, to use with eCS and XP,
>>you need to make a SINGLE primary partition on the stick,
>>and format that as FAT32.
>>(and assign it a driveletter and volumename for LVM too)
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>>So the complete procedure for that is:
>> - Boot to eCS that is USB capable
>> - Insert the stick, wait if it is seen (or not :-)
>> - Start DFSee, and WIPE the start of the stick:
>>	Mode-FDISK ->
>>	   MBR area operations ->
>>	      Wipe start of disk to ZERO ->
>>	         ... select the stick ...
>> - Now eject the stick and REBOOT!
>> 
>> - Start DFSee again, and create a new primary:
>>	Mode=FDISK ->
>>	   Create new partition ->
>>	       ... select freespace on the stick ...
>>In the CREATE dialog, select the FAT32 type:
>>	FAT, 32-bit type 0B: < Cyl 1024
>>make sure the LVM info is created too:
>>	[x] Include LVM information
>>Then in the LVM dialog, specify an available driveletter
>>and a suitable volume/partition name.
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>>   now format the new partition as FAT32:
>>	Actions ->
>>	   Format with FAT filesystem ->
>>	      A Partition to be selected ->
>>	          ... select new partition on stick
>>  Then in the FORMAT dialog, select FAT32.
>>  (it will default to FAT16 on a small disk)
>>   You also may assign a different disk-label here ...
>> - Eject the stick and REBOOT again!
>> 
>>Should be recognized and mounted by FAT32.IFS ...
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>>Regards, JvW
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>>Jan van Wijk, author of DFSee; http://www.dfsee.com
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>If you don't have DFSee, I strongly recommend getting it. The support alone is
>more than worth the price, and it's really the best and safest way to handle
>partitions etc. with multiple OSs.
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>It is possible to take some shortcuts on Jan's proceedure now. Nonetheless, I
>followed it carefully the first time I did one and it works. The resulting USB
>stick is also Vista- and linux-compatible.
>

Thanks

Douglas Clark