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GuiltySpark

Member

Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 6

Trouble Installing on USB Flash Drive

Hi everyone. I am trying to install Arch to a USB flash drive. I'm following to the Beginners Guide as I'm rather a larger noob at Linux.

I have reached to stage where I have to Partition Hard Drives (with cfdisk). The installer detects my USB drive (I checked it with fdisk -l and it shows up as /dev/sde. I don't have any hard drive attached by the way).

When trying to set up the partition(s) on the USB device cfdisk reports a fatal error:

FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder

The stick is FAT32 which I formated with Windows XP's built in tool.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks dudes.

evr

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Trouble Installing on USB Flash Drive

I just did a quick search and came up with this. 

http://morecode.wordpress.com/2007/02/1 … -cylinder/

It looks like you might have to use fdisk to delete the partition, and than setup another one.