formatting a 1 GB Compact Flash

[Teknoratti]

I have a 256 image of an XP OS that I want to put on a 1GB CF. I didnt partition the CF, I just catted the 256MB image to the CF. The problem is when I boot to the XP OS It doesn't recognize the remaining 750MB of the CF. I figured XP didnt see it b/c the space wasn't partitioned

I thought if I took the CF, formatted the whole 1GB CF in NTFS, then cat the image on the CF, that I would be able to see all remaining space. I wasn't

How could I go about having the 256 MB on the 1GB CF and have XP see the remaining space

I have a Sandisk Ultra II GB CF
Running Linux Redhat 9

 

[Trevoke]

How about you just install XP on the card, that ought to be doable..

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[Teknoratti]

I think I know what may be wrong. By simply doing what I did in the previous step, all I did was write over the partition table with the partition table of the OS image. To the partition table on the CF there is only one partition, and nothing else.

I need to be able to mount that File system on the CF which is NTFS and write to the partition table to tell it that there is more space on the CF. I understand that NTFS is not a writable File system so I guess doing this would be hard if impossible.

Anything help would be appreciated.

 

[Trevoke]

Out of curiosity, why do you need NTFS?
NTFS is a very dirty filesystem that leaves bits of data everywhere. FAT32 is cleaner. Use that... You can write to it from Linux.

-Haben sie fosforos?
-No tiengo caballero, but I have un briquet.

 

[Teknoratti]

This was a custom image that I was given with NTFS as the file system. I dont really know how this image was put together. If I had my choice I would most certainly use FAT32 but in this case I was trying to stay consistent with what was already being used.

 

[Trevoke]

Create two partitions, one of 256 megs on which you write the image, and another one with the rest of the card.. ?
This is theoretical for me at this point, sorry.

-Haben sie fosforos?
-No tiengo caballero, but I have un briquet.

 

[zeland]

Get yourself a CF-to-IDE converter or borrow one. Plug it into your PC and use Partition Magic/Acronis or what ever to change & resize the partition. Linux has utilities to resize a partition but not the FAT/NTFS file system.


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