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Posted: April 21 2007,13:09 QUOTE

Hi all,

I created a USB flash disk install using the DSL tools / create a USB-ZIP format option (which works great by the way).

So on my 512MB USB flash disk I have 2 partitions - the first (50MB or so partition) appears to be the boot partition and has the knoppix etc. files in it - this partition is visible to Windows.

I also have a 450MB partition which has a file name 'backup.tar.gz' (or something like that) in it, which is NOT visible to Windows.  From memory when I did an fdisk -p it said the second partition was formatted as W95 FAT.

I'm very much a linux newbie and following commands found via googling for help - how can I please set the second 450MB partition create by the DSL create script, so that it is readable/writable by Windows please?

Many thanks in advance,
Gizmomelb

PS: some extra questions if I may:

1. does DSL 3.3 support reading/writing to NTFS partitions?
2. does DSL 3.3 by default support writing my settings to the USB flash disk, so I don't have to reconfigure every time I boot DSL?  (is that what the backup.tar.gz file is?)
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Posted: April 21 2007,15:42 QUOTE

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I'm very much a linux newbie and following commands found via googling for help - how can I please set the second 450MB partition create by the DSL create script, so that it is readable/writable by Windows please?


See here - it allowed me to read/write to a second USB stick partition in Windows
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Posted: April 24 2007,17:39 QUOTE

2. yes. yes.
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