So I started checking in to ways to manipulate a U3 systems "enhanced" (mater of opinion) USB sticks the other day after reading a post about the anoing virtual cd drive on one of these sticks.
I have 1 a Sandisk cruiser 4Gig ......... the complant the poster had was the unwanted use of space the virtuall cd took on the drive and NO way to remove it.
well I found a way........It turns out that theirs a package in the standard repos called u3-tool ............ hears the -h
However insted of remaking the cd partition to say 1 or 0 bites ...........I pumped it up to 700Mib and then loaded the linux mint 9 fluxbox .iso on it 8)
took it to the test box ....pluged it in rebooted............hit the boot menu key (F10) chose cd picked the Sandisk cruiser it was showing and wala .....it booted the usb as if it was a cd drive...............it runs great and I'm posting this from it
the rest of the drive shows up in Thunar as expected and can be used for storage wile running in the live environment..............sweet.
any way gust thought I'd post the INFO in case anyone else was having the issue
☯VINNY☯
PS: ya ya I know.........why dident you put Kubuntu on it vin.........well simply put....... it was just what was handy at the time
I have 1 a Sandisk cruiser 4Gig ......... the complant the poster had was the unwanted use of space the virtuall cd took on the drive and NO way to remove it.
well I found a way........It turns out that theirs a package in the standard repos called u3-tool ............ hears the -h
mint@mint ~ $ u3-tool -h
u3-tool 0.3 - U3 USB stick manager
Usage: u3-tool [options] <device name>
Options:
-c Change password
-d Disable device security
-D Dump all raw info(for debug)
-e Enable device security
-h Print this help message
-i Display device info
-l <cd image> Load CD image into device
-p <cd size> Repartition device
-R Reset device security, destroying private data
-u Unlock device
-v Use verbose output
-V Print version information
For the device name use:
'/dev/sda0', '/dev/sg3'
mint@mint ~ $
u3-tool 0.3 - U3 USB stick manager
Usage: u3-tool [options] <device name>
Options:
-c Change password
-d Disable device security
-D Dump all raw info(for debug)
-e Enable device security
-h Print this help message
-i Display device info
-l <cd image> Load CD image into device
-p <cd size> Repartition device
-R Reset device security, destroying private data
-u Unlock device
-v Use verbose output
-V Print version information
For the device name use:
'/dev/sda0', '/dev/sg3'
mint@mint ~ $
However insted of remaking the cd partition to say 1 or 0 bites ...........I pumped it up to 700Mib and then loaded the linux mint 9 fluxbox .iso on it 8)
took it to the test box ....pluged it in rebooted............hit the boot menu key (F10) chose cd picked the Sandisk cruiser it was showing and wala .....it booted the usb as if it was a cd drive...............it runs great and I'm posting this from it
the rest of the drive shows up in Thunar as expected and can be used for storage wile running in the live environment..............sweet.
any way gust thought I'd post the INFO in case anyone else was having the issue
☯VINNY☯
PS: ya ya I know.........why dident you put Kubuntu on it vin.........well simply put....... it was just what was handy at the time
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