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[Max Headroom]

G'day Fred, Please Help because I've Corrupted Me GumBoot USB ( ie. isobooter ) by intending & Attempting 2 Add a Swap Partition 2 the eNd of the USB

Now I just get

Cannot overwrite an independent Partition.
partnew (hd0,3) 0x00 (hd0,0)/Angel_Student_Eco.iso

Error 30: invalid argument

Press any key to continue...

Of Course I've Searched on the iNet, like so...

isobooter Cannot overwrite an independent partition Error 30: invalid argument Solved

4 the answer, But there's Nun

Also I should mention while I was running the isobooter-mod script it was sumtimes / often ( about 1/2 the time, but random whether I choose Y or N ) returning

isoinfo: Unable to find Joliet SVD

& I did Run WinContig on All the iso files & they're Clean ie. No Fragmentation... aRe these 2 issues Related?

of course I've really shot a Hole in Me GumBoot, having 60 isos, Mostly working!

Thanx Mate 4 Your Wisdom!

:)K

[fredx181]

Hi Max,

There shouldn't be more than 3 partitions on your USB-drive for isobooter (and isobooter-mod) to work properly, do you have a fourth partition ? If so, remove it and see if things work OK again.

isoinfo: Unable to find Joliet SVD

You asked about that earlier here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 790#959790
And I replied. Sorry, can't help more.

Fred

[Max Headroom]

G'day Fredx181, I Finally Solved the Error 30: invalid aRgument issue... Evidently it didn't like the Partition being Resized 2 accommodate a Swap partition.

But Now altho I did ReFormat it Fat32 w/ GParted w/ Boot Flag & Copied isos in Linux, the Most Critical iso Angel Student Eco XX EE17 KloneOS PC ( ie. Me ReMastered iso ) is Fragmented, so of course won't boot, But when I Try Running WinContig in Windows ( Err I should say M$ Virus Bait! , it can't Read it, because it turns out According 2 Disk Management is a RAW File System, yet other isos Boot OK, so I'm Hamstrung, I Really don't want 2 Start from Scratch Again, Any Suggestions!?!

:)K

[fredx181]

G'day Fredx181, I Finally Solved the Error 30: invalid aRgument issue... Evidently it didn't like the Partition being Resized 2 accommodate a Swap partition.

But Now altho I did ReFormat it Fat32 w/ GParted w/ Boot Flag & Copied isos in Linux, the Most Critical iso Angel Student Eco XX EE17 KloneOS PC ( ie. Me ReMastered iso ) is Fragmented, so of course won't boot, But when I Try Running WinContig in Windows ( Err I should say M$ Virus Bait! , it can't Read it, because it turns out According 2 Disk Management is a RAW File System, yet other isos Boot OK, so I'm Hamstrung, I Really don't want 2 Start from Scratch Again, Any Suggestions!?!

:)K

Hi Max, you can try the "defragfs" script (required is having perl installed), from Readme:

- Use defragfs to defrag this partition (it won't work always).
It may easily happen that one of the ISO's is not contiguous (fragmented)
In that case it won't boot, if defragfs doesn't help, better start all over by reformatting to FAT32 and copy the files from this archive and the ISO's again..
From terminal in this directory, run (if e.g. mountpoint of this drive is /mnt/sdb1):
./defragfs /mnt/sdb1
(change according to the mountpoint)

If your mountpoint is /mnt/sdb1, run from terminal in /mnt/sdb1 directory:

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./defragfs /mnt/sdb1 -a -f

(just wait, and it will show if defragmentation was successful. The options -a -f makes it do it's job without asking questions)
You need free space on this partition at least the size of the fragmented iso (recommended is much more)
If defragfs doesn't work, I think there's no other option than reformatting and copying the ISO's again.

Fred

[Max Headroom]

Thanx Fred, that did the Trick!

Next Question How2 Boot Series 1 & Series 2 Puppy isos Sucksessfully?

I've Tried Both No Splash Screen & ChainLoading & Various

Puppy acpi=off ide=nodma pmedia=cd Combos

No Luck!

:)K

[fredx181]

Thanx Fred, that did the Trick!

Great!

Next Question How2 Boot Series 1 & Series 2 Puppy isos Sucksessfully?

That I don't know about, strange that booting from it's splash screen doesn't work (assuming you tried that).

Fred