[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu/Knoppix on ext2/ext3 FS on usb stick

[Narendra Diwate]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jkhatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> Anyone can light on this,
>
> I'm installing Linux on my usb 16GB stick , but I'm wondering why only vfat
> partition is needed to install the Linux on usb stick , why we can't use
> extX type of FS to install the Linux????  is it necessary to have vfat
> partition to install Linux instead of its native FS... ? is there any
> solution for this ?
>
> I came to know that , SYSLINUX uses vfat .... thats why it is required ...
> but the same thing never happened in case of HDD ... I never formated my hdd
> with vft to install Linux, it boots from extX type of partition ... then why
> we need to format usb stick with vfat ????
>

Grub does not need FAT, so using grub should solve this. Just tried
Unetbootin Tinycore to a Ext2 formated USB. Failed to boot. Didn't
investigate.

HDD doesn't use syslinux, it uses grub, grub2 or lilo in most cases.


Regards

Narendra Diwate
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