When I was trying to make a bootable USB flash drive, I had a moment of panic because my Aspire One didn’t seem to boot from it at one point, and at another try at writing to it, I ended up cancelling the writing in the middle. Gah~! But the blog dotkam saved me by teaching me how to restore the format of a USB flash drive. I haven’t formatted anything in Linux in ages so this gave me a crash course on using the fdisk and mkfs.vfat utilities. It did show what it’s like to use the tools, including the messages it will show when you follow the guide step by step. Although they forgot to show how you figure out what the name of your device is. You could always check it via dmesg. When I checked it out using dmesg, I [...]

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