Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB
Date	2023-02-19 12:50 +0100
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On 2023-02-19 12:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 19/02/2023 03:04, 25B.R866 wrote:
>> On 2/18/23 4:59 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 18/02/2023 08:38, 25B.R866 wrote:
>>>> On 2/15/23 4:58 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>>>>> Since I haven't been able to get quantian (knoppix 4) to install 
>>>>> from DVD
>>>>> (because of ATA/SATA/UEFI issues) maybe I could put it on a USB.
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead of getting and using RUFUS, since i alread have GParted,
>>>>> is there a way to do this?
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't seen any obvious options in the menu other than the 
>>>>> "boot" switch
>>>>> on defining a partition.. so while I suspect this is what i need, 
>>>>> it would be
>>>>> smoother if I had better instructions. All my searches turn up how 
>>>>> to put
>>>>> GParted on a bootable USB instead.
>>>>
>>>>    Gparted is NOT the right tool for that.
>>>>
>>> I just followed directions on the MINT site to make a bootable USB 
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> It is quite complicated.
>>>
>>>>    Most modern bootable USBs also incorporate
>>>>    a UEFI (a M$ abomination) partition a the
>>>>    very start. You, kinda, CAN fake that with
>>>>    gparted - create a FAT-32 part at the very
>>>>    beginning, but it's not guarenteed to work
>>>>    since special code needs to be loaded INTO
>>>>    the little partition.
>>>>
>>> In my case it appears to be a directory, not a partition
>>
>>
>>    Interesting .... I've never seen it as a directory
>>    per-se - it's always a 100m-500m FAT-32 partition
>>    that's the very first one on the drive. Perhaps
>>    your setup is "presenting" it as a dir, pcmanfm
>>    will - and any other parts on the drive. They appear
>>    in the left-hand menu. It's *really* a "mountable
>>    partition" though. Click and it mounts somewhere.
>>
> My bad, I assumed because it was not mounted on a root directory it 
> wasn't a separate partition.
> 
> It is of course a FAT partition all in its own right.
> HOWEVER My bootable stick contains it at two locations - there is a 
> 16bit FAT partition AND a subdirectory on the EXT4 root partition of the 
> bootable USB stick.

No, that seems some error by the people that made that bootable stick. 
Possibly they copied the files to /boot/efi/ before the partition was 
mounted. Then they mounted it, and copied the files again. As the files 
in the directory are then invisible, they were not deleted.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Use GParted to make bootable USB vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-02-15 21:58 +0000
  Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-15 23:01 +0100
  Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2023-02-15 22:11 +0000
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-15 16:34 -0800
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2023-02-16 10:59 +0200
  Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-02-15 20:11 -0500
  Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 03:38 -0500
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-18 09:59 +0000
      Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 22:04 -0500
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-02-18 23:34 -0500
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-19 11:25 +0000
          Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-19 12:50 +0100
            Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-19 14:30 +0000
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-18 12:29 +0100
      Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 22:15 -0500
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-18 14:21 +0000
      Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 22:24 -0500
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-19 12:26 +0100
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-19 14:21 +0000
          Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-20 21:53 -0500
            Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 08:39 +0000
              Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 10:53 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 11:42 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 01:08 -0500
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 01:38 -0500
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-23 12:15 +0100
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-23 13:16 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-23 21:27 -0500
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-24 09:20 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-24 14:03 +0100
            Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 10:38 +0000
              Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-02-21 19:12 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-22 13:26 +0000
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-21 22:30 -0800

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