Hi, Lee wrote: > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > "normal" flash drive again?
You have to delete the partitions of the USB stick which came with the ISO. Then you create one or more partitions. Then you format them to a writable filesystem each. If it shall serve for file exchange with MS-Windows or Macs, then you probably want just one partition with FAT as filesystem. I would do the first and second step by program "fdisk" and the third step by program "mkfs.fat". If you prefer a GUI program, look for GParted or what your desktop offers for the tasks of partitioning and filesystem formatting. ------------------------------------------------------------------- In hindsight it would of course have been advisable to make a copy of the USB stick to an image file before putting the netinst ISO onto it. Assuming that the USB stick is /dev/sdc and you home directory offers enough space for the size of the USB stick this would have been something like: dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1M of="$HOME"/usb_stick.img Later you would put it back onto the USB stick the same way as you did with the netinst ISO image. Have a nice day :) Thomas
