Re: Hardy install on a Thumb drive

On 2008-05-11, Baron <baron.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Todd wrote:

Ignoramus22864 <ignoramus22864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I went out and bought an 8gig drive and installed Ubuntu 8.04 on it.
The install seemed to go well, but when I rebooted into the thumb
drive, it just hung at the blank desktop after logging in. Not really
a desktop, just a blank, brownish screen.

Are you aware that a lot of the 8Gb USB thumb drive are fake ? The MP
has been programmed to lie about its size. A way to test for this is
to format it (fat32) then try to copy more than 5 or six GB of files to
it.

I thought that fat32 can't cope with anything bigger than 4gig.

Why not format them ext2 and see if you can utilise the full stick?

I don't use them BTW, so I can't test your theory.


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Regards,

Gregory.
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