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Bug 196163 - Instructions do not work
Summary: Instructions do not work
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
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Reported: 2007-10-17 12:58 UTC by Curtis Maurand
Modified: 2024-04-22 00:09 UTC (History)
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Description Curtis Maurand 2007-10-17 12:58:47 UTC
After trying these instructions several times without success and discussing things with other engineers There are a couple of crucial changes that are needed for this document to work.

1. use cfdisk rather than fdisk.
2. The partition that you create on the usb key must have the correct tag FAT16 or FAT32 depending upon whether you formatted the key with mkdosfs -F 16 or mkdosfs -F 32.
3. The partition that you create must be tagged as bootable.

Steps 2 and 3 are missing from the document
Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-17 13:05:02 UTC
If you prefer cfdisk, use it.
F16/F32, is mentioned
"...and mark it bootable...", and bootable flag is displayed in fdisk's output