On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:49, Gyorgy Jeney <nog.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 November 2010 23:52, Gene Cumm <gene.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney <nog.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> But then I noticed that I wasn't following the (debian) instructions >>> properly and I was writing the image to /dev/sde, instead of >>> /dev/sde1. As soon as a partition was created, an appropriate MBR >>> installed, the image in question worked on the Sony. >>> >>> Is such partition-less configurations supported? >> >> Floppies do it all the time but they also make the file system across >> the entire device and not just a partition. >> >> Strange, I would have expected an error from the installer about no file >> system. > > Do you mind my asking, what installer? The thing that installs > syslinux on the USB key? I guess that didn't complain because during > testing I did:
Yes, extlinux/extlinux, linux/syslinux, mtools/syslinux, dos/syslinux.com, win32/syslinux.exe, and win64/syslinux64.exe should be all of the SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX installers (relative to the distribution root). > mkdosfs -I /dev/sde > ./linux/syslinux /dev/sde > > I guess that means there was a filesystem there. Yep, and as a result, there are no partitions. This would cause it to not complain. My bad. -- -Gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
