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Posted: Aug. 15 2006,04:32 QUOTE
Hi, people. I recently installed DSL 3.0.1 to a USB pendrive. When I connect the pendrive to my Windows XP system, the 50mb partition shows up as the E:\ drive. Is there something that I can do to access the other partition from Windows, maybe through a third-party file browser or by getting Windows to treat the second partition as a second removable drive? I know... this is much easier to do in Linux, but I still have the need to do this from Windows.
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Posted: Aug. 15 2006,18:01 QUOTE
Apparently windows will only see the first visible partition for usb devices.

You could mark it as hidden (since I do not think you need to access that 50mb partition anyways), or search for other software.
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Posted: Aug. 16 2006,01:03 QUOTE
Any suggestions on how to hide the partition?
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Posted: Aug. 16 2006,01:54 QUOTE
I think any disk utility can do that, like fdisk/cfdisk.
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Posted: Aug. 24 2006,12:49 QUOTE
I made sda1 hidden, but it was still visible under windows  :O

I use an mp3player ... and I still want to listen to the music. When i make usbhdd install, then i can listen to music, but the DSL isn`t booting ... and when I make usbzip install, then it boots, but I can`t listen to music  :angry:

On the usbhdd install, it doesn`t boot, but if I boot from cd with "dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1" then it loads from mp3player.

I don`t know if thats it, but when making the usbhdd install it shows "Total number of sectors not a multiple of sectors per track" and when i force to boot usbhdd then it shows "This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any key to try again..."


I tried to manually do things like were in pendrive_usbzip.sh but for one partition, and it failed again [497MB]. When i try to do like in pendrive_usbhdd.sh then at the moment when I write "syslinux /dev/hda" it shows some error about the incorrect number of sectors [or sth like that, I don`t remember ;)]


Any idea how to have both DSL and mp3player working on 1 device?  :cool:  [of course with booting from mp3player :p not from CD]


EDIT:

I know, that when I make single partition usbzip then I can listen to the music ... but when i try to boot the DSL then it shows "Syslinux (2003.06.06) boot failed" or sth like that ... :| is it not supported to have a 497MB usb-zip partition? Or I made something wrong? I tried to make it like in the dual-partition script from LiveCD, but without creating the second partition.
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