[ubuntu-uk] Trying to create bootable USB drive.

[Tom Bamford]

Kris Douglas wrote:
>
>
> On 06/12/2007, *Tom Bamford* <tom at entrepreneuria.co.uk 
> <mailto:tom at entrepreneuria.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Andrew Jenkins wrote:
>     > Anyway, I've tried to create the file systems and
>     > have hit a problem.  Once I've created the first
>     > partition as FAT 16 and try to 'mkfs' it I get the
>     > error as follows:
>     >
>     > andrew at laptop:~$ mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n ubuntu710 /dev/sdc1
>     >
>     > mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
>     > WARNING: Not enough clusters for a 16 bit FAT! The filesystem
>     will be
>     > misinterpreted as having a 12 bit FAT without mount option
>     "fat=16".
>     > mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system
>     >
>     > And that's where it all stops.  I can't imagine a FAT12
>     > will be any good to him as it's going to be connected
>     > to a Windows machine.  So any ideas anyone?
>     >
>     > Andy Jenkins
>     How big is the drive? FAT16 partitions can only be up to 2GB.
>     FAT32 uses
>     diskspace more efficiently anyway - a 2GB FAT16 volume will have a
>     default cluster size of 32KB compared to FAT32's 4KB, meaning that
>     any
>     files under 32KB in size will take up at least 32KB on disk, even
>     0 byte
>     files.
>
>     Regards,
>     Tom
>
>     <snip>
>
>
> Which was why i asked for the need of fatass16
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Kris Douglas
>       Softdel Limited Hosting Services
>
>       Web: www.softdel.net <http://www.softdel.net>
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I thought so, but I hadn't seen your reply when I posted.

Tom

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