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Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: coolass on May 06, 2004, 03:53:33 pm

Can anyone tell me how to format a compactflash card to ext2 on using Windows XP pro. Thanks[span style=\'font-size:25pt;line-height:100%\'][/size][size=24][/span]

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: lardman on May 06, 2004, 04:09:59 pm

It can\'t be done without buying commercial software.

Why? Why not use your Z?


Si

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: coolass on May 06, 2004, 04:17:07 pm

Would that be#mkfs.ext2  /dev/compactflash

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: lardman on May 06, 2004, 04:18:53 pm

mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1

Si

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: coolass on May 06, 2004, 04:56:13 pm

Is that the same for the sl-6000?  /hda1

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: Greg2 on May 06, 2004, 05:09:24 pm

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Is that the same for the sl-6000?  /hda1

Yes for the cf-card

Greg

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: coolass on May 06, 2004, 05:19:52 pm

Do I need fdisk installed first?

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: DrWowe on May 06, 2004, 05:25:42 pm

If it absolutely has to be done on Windows, you could use PartitionMagic. (but it\'s commercial, like lardman said)

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: lardman on May 06, 2004, 05:33:48 pm

No you don\'t need fdisk, but mkfs.* sometimes/always(?) comes with fdisk. So if you don\'t have mkfs then find fdisk on killefiz and you\'ll get mkfs.ext2 too.


Si

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: coolass on May 06, 2004, 09:00:11 pm

# Unpack if you haven\'t done so already.
   # Don\'t forget the \'p\' switch, or you\'ll get wrong permissions.
   ./gnu-tar -C debroot -xvzpf zaurus-debian-*.tgz                               ...... Does anyone know what the \'p\' sitch means. I\'m logged in as root {su} but it still comes up permission denied.

Title: Ext2 formatting
Post by: coolass on May 06, 2004, 11:27:21 pm

Does anyone know how to get  permission ?