OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
Reading a usb thumb drive on arcaos 5.1.1
Roderick Klein:
Its better to follow the steps in the instruction of AN to get your stick working.
Otherwise you will not get there. Its not just adding the LVM information.
Roderick
Martin Iturbide:
Hi
--- Quote from: Dan Eicher on July 12, 2025, 06:25:35 pm ---Will adding the LVM information cause Windows to be unhappy?
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I did it once with a FAT32 USB HDD and Windows did not complain.
Arca Noae's documentation is better but I have here my article with pictures using DFSEE:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=Prepare_the_FAT32_USB_Flash_Drive
This will wipe your USB HDD (or flash drive), please always keep a backup of your USB Flash drive.
Regards
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: Dan Eicher on July 12, 2025, 06:25:35 pm ---Will adding the LVM information cause Windows to be unhappy?
Is there an article or video that uncovers where the LVM information is stored and what it includes?
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It's fine, located in a hidden area of the MBR/EBR and nothing has ever complained about it, including cameras and old MP3 devices as well as Windows and Linux. Just don't use fdisk or similar on the disk after creating it on OS/2.
Note also that most sticks come from the factory formatted as large floppies (no partition table), which OS/2 only supports up to 2GB, so you do have to partition it on OS/2.
Worst thing is that our FAT32 driver is very slow.
Dan Eicher:
Dave,
I followed the docs and it works fine moving between Win11 and ArcaOS.
A few notes:
1) Booted with drive in.
2) I first started miniLVM and it said the partition table was corrupt.
Closed miniLVM.
3) Used initdisk to erase and partition with mbr
4) unplugged and replugged
5) "notification area" (not sure what that's properly called in presentation manager, said drive unuseable.
6) Shutdown, restarted.
7) Green light on usb drive, was able to follow the rest of the directions in this document.
The document just says 'format the drive' - I would suggest, adding the example:
format x: /fs:fat32
Dave Yeo:
Yes, the wiki does seem to need to be better about how to format. I'll pass on your suggestion. Another suggestion is using pmformat.
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