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Knoppix USB boot drive

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bruinwar

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Last night I was able to follow the instructions on www.pendrivelinux.com to create a Knoppix bootable USB drive & it worked... much to my surprise, the 1st time! The instructions made a 750m partition & a second partition, the rest of the 4gig USB drive I used. Once booted from the USB, it sees the 2nd USB partition & the 2 NTFS partitions on my WinXP hard drive.

The only issue is that WindowsXP does not see the 2nd partition. The command from #11 in the instructions:

mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdx2

Formats the partition. I've tried modifing the command from #9:

mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n usb /dev/sdx1
to
mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n usb /dev/sdx1

to make a FAT32 partition, but it doesn't appear to work.

I've searched around a bit but was unable to find what I'm looking for. All I want it to make the 2nd partition, about 3 gig, a FAT32 that Windows can read & write to. Is this possible? Sorry I am a complete noob at this.

TIA

Regards,
Joe S.
 
i spent some time on this earlier this year and could, in no configuration, get windows to recognize the second partition on either of my flash drives as far as i recall

you *could* use DSL. the installation routine calls for using FAT32 on the drive with, iirc, qemu or some such. that way youd have bootable linux (admitedly, its no knoppix right off, but if you have the space you could probably tweak it a bit) with a filesystem that the drive or any host OS can use without a problem.
 
The problem is that Windows only mounts the FIRST partition. If you go to control panel -> administration -> disk administration you can see that there are two parititons, but there appears to be no way to mount the second. I haven't come up with a fix for this myself 🙁
 
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