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arfett

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Registered: 2008-04-26

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[solved] USB stick must be fat16 for USB install to work?

On the USB install instructions page it mentions in the deprecated section that the disk needs to be fat16.  Is this still true or will it now work with fat32?

Last edited by arfett (2009-09-07 18:36:12)

Davigetto

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Registered: 2007-05-10

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Re: [solved] USB stick must be fat16 for USB install to work?

With fat32 works, I installed arch on my asus eee with a fat32 partition.

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eldragon

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Registered: 2008-11-18

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Re: [solved] USB stick must be fat16 for USB install to work?

arent you supposed to dd into the entire drive destroying whatever partition info there might be?

lilsirecho

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Re: [solved] USB stick must be fat16 for USB install to work?

Its possible to install into fat32 if the drive is mounted.

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arfett

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Registered: 2008-04-26

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Re: [solved] USB stick must be fat16 for USB install to work?

Apparently if you use flashnul in windows to copy the image over it converts the disk to fat16 anyways as it's a preformatted image.