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[ Solved ] How to format USB and burn image to USB in Linux Sparkylinux?

Started by way12go, April 29, 2015, 01:57:58 AM

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way12go

[ Solved ] How to format USB and burn image to USB in Linux Sparkylinux?

sdb is your usb or is it sdc? Check it before you go further...

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=16

unmount

sudo mkfs.vfat -n '' -I /dev/sdb

gparted  --- create MS-DOS partition table and format to FAT32

usb image writer - select iso and burn to usb
Success gives birth to success? Failure gives birth to failure? - Sagar Gorijala.

way12go



sudo mkfs.vfat -n '' -I /dev/sdb

or

sudo mkfs.vfat -n 'my own label for pendrive' -I /dev/sdb
Success gives birth to success? Failure gives birth to failure? - Sagar Gorijala.

dhinds

I use gparted to format the usb sticks to fat16 or 32, then dd or unetbootin or image writer to burn the iso.

The Black Pig


way12go

For some reason when I use gparted I don't get good results all the time. For example the last time I burned Ubuntu 15.04 64bit on usb it simply wouldn't disappear. Format USB was not helpful and gparted was not helpful...

The only thing that formatted the usb is the above mentioned commands.
Success gives birth to success? Failure gives birth to failure? - Sagar Gorijala.


pavroo

There is an another option: install 'mintstick' which is available in our repos.
It provides 2 tools:
- usb formatter
- live system usb creator
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galen

keep in mind that USB sticks are made a hidden section, like some secure sticks
and I noticed sparky's usb stick format uses UDF format like the old CD RW drives used,
so you not get full access to the stick and it may freeze up. eg frozen bit may get stuck into read-only mode
Puppy Linux's formater has an option for booting in older machines by using superfloppy (no partitions) or as a fake ZIP drive (partition 4 boots the drive),
those methods can really revive an old machine
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