How-to restoring an USB stick previousy used as boot device ----------------------------------------------------------- When you are done using an USB stick as boot device to install Slackware in your language, you can restore it to its previous state, to be able to store other data on it again. Before you begin, plug-in the USB stick and CHECK CAREFULLY its device name, whith one of following commands: cat /proc/partitions dmesg | tail # you need to be root for that one The device name should be something like /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc, let's call it /dev/sdx (1) Wipe the bootsector of the USB stick: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=512 count=1 (2) Create a new partition on the USB stick using 'fdisk' or 'cfdisk' Set the type "FAT32" for that partition. (3) Write a FAT32 filesystem on it: mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sdx1 Adapted from Eric Hameleers' README_USB.TXT