Sun Microsystems X4640 manual If Linux has automounted the device, unmount it first

Preparing the USB Flash Drive

Note – This procedure requires the use of parted utility version 1.8.6 or later. Do not use earlier versions of parted.

Note – These steps require superuser (su - root) access.

a.If Linux has automounted the device, unmount it first.

# umount /dev/sdX1

Where X is the drive letter for the USB flash drive (for example, /dev/sda or /dev/sdb), and 1 indicates the first partition.

b.Use parted to delete all partitions and create a new bootable FAT32 partition:

# /sbin/parted /dev/sdX

Where X is the drive letter for the USB flash drive (for example, /dev/sda or /dev/sdb).

The parted command prompt displays.

c.Enter the following commands in the order listed and follow the prompts to create your bootable primary partition:

■(parted): mklabel

You will be prompted to create a disk label type. If msdos is not listed as the default, you will need to enter msdos at the appropriate prompt, as shown in the example below:

Warning: The existing label on sdx will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? Yes/No: yes

New disk label type? msdos

■(parted): mkpartfs

Creates a new partition on the disk. Answer the prompts to confirm that this will be the primary partition, fat32 format, spanning the entire disk minus the last megabyte (starting at 1, and ending at -1). Example output is shown below:

Partition type? primary/extended? primary File system type? [ext2] fat32

Start? 1 End? -1

■(parted): set 1 boot on

Sets the boot flag for this partition.

■(parted): set 1 lba on

Sets the lba (Linear Block Addressing) flag for this partition.

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