http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100#c2 --- Comment #2 from Jigish Gohil 2009-11-20 11:22:32 UTC --- Good idea, but as majority would assume the data is persistent on USB stick because it is rw media, we default to hybridpersistent="true" and let users who do not want persistence on the stick override it with hybridpersistent="false" Currently we are using this script to create partition after dd of iso. #!/bin/bash if [ x"$1" = x"" ]; then echo "run the script with /dev/sdX as argument" exit fi fdisk $1 << EOF n p 2 w EOF #wipe old cow data as it causes usb to not boot dd if=/dev/zero of=$1 bs=4K count=2 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100#c4 --- Comment #4 from Jigish Gohil 2009-11-20 11:33:02 UTC --- So we create third partition for that? Second partition gets taken by cow so it will not be reusable even if users wants it. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100#c6 --- Comment #6 from Jigish Gohil 2009-11-20 11:47:37 UTC --- Even better :) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100#c8 --- Comment #8 from Jigish Gohil 2009-11-24 14:07:48 UTC --- Windows does not seem to like if the first partition is not recognised, so having second partition vfat will not work. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100#c10 --- Comment #10 from Marcus Schaefer 2009-11-24 14:41:24 UTC --- well it would be hard to have the system on another partition than the first one because you have to specify an offset value and therefore you have to know the geometry of the stick before you put the image file onto the stick. Additionally the boot code requires the root partition to be the first one. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100#c12 Stephan Kulow changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|coolo@novell.com | --- Comment #12 from Stephan Kulow 2009-11-24 16:48:14 UTC --- Hmm, if windows can't recognize it, vfat makes little sense I agree. Ext3 then - ext4 is not good for data sharing. ext3 should be well established among those I want to share data with [taking out those only knowing vfat :] -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557100#c14 Uwe Gansert changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #14 from Uwe Gansert 2009-12-09 11:12:59 UTC --- implemented in 3.85 hybridpersistent=true activates it -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.