[syslinux] Windows Dos testing

Nazo nazosan at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 17:04:18 PDT 2005


Just point your windows users to this tool: 
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html
Officially you're only supposed to use it if you have an HP usb
storage device.  Apparently it's not smart enough to check if you
accidentally put in, oh, say a PNY drive.  ^_^

On 8/14/05, Jeff Sadowski <jeff_sadowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well I'll need to do more experiments first.
> I need to go out and find fdisk for windows.
> Ok like I said linux worked great and I think I'll
> just create a bootable cd to create a usb bootable
> sticks.(to give to windows users). Here is what I did
> for testing in windows. I started with zeroing out the
> flash drive in linux so that I knew I started from
> ground zero ie:
> "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1000"
> then I put the usb stick in a windows machine.
> I let windows format the disk. (bad idea)
> It didn't partition the disk at all.(didn't know till
> I looked at it in linux) And then I used syslinux on
> it with the -m flag and tried to boot it. It didn't
> work. I was looking for a full proof method in windows
> but windows needs work itself. So I'll get back to you
> guys on this when I have some time to experiment.
> 
> 
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