[ubuntu-us-ut] trying to create karmic usb install

[Clay Moultrie]

This won't help the usb device not recognizing, and this may be an
amateur way to go about this but try downloading and using unetbootin
once you get the usb drive functioning, i've been using it for the
last 2 releases. check it out here.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/  I use this every time I have to
install on a netbook. it works great.

Clay



On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Adam Olsen <arolsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:15 PM, MilesTogoe <miles.togoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a karmic install usb stick from an iso on my netbook
> > (no dvd drive available).  I've downloaded the cdlive tools but when I went
> > to create my usb drive it was stuck with GPT - anyway I tried to reformat
> > and hosed the flash drive - now when I stick in the usb drive and do "df" I
> > see tempfs and nothing else.  But when I try to run parted I'm caught in
> > this loop of not having a partition, .....
> >
> > Is there some easy way I can simply start over with my flash drive ?  ie
> > create partition, format , .....   I think once I get that far I can run
> > parted to create the partition as bootable and run livecd-tools to create
> > the install disk.
>
> Unplug your usb drive, and plug it back in.  Type "dmesg", it should
> give you some device information.  You'll see something like this:
>
> [69192.265021] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> [69192.266317] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] 3948544 512-byte logical blocks:
> (2.02 GB/1.88 GiB)
> [69192.267006] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> [69192.267011] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
> [69192.267015] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [69192.269133] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [69192.269138]  sdc: sdc1
>
> Maybe without the sdc1, but you'll know that your device is /dev/sdc,
> at which point you can run parted on /dev/sdc, or fdisk, and create a
> new partition table or partition.
>
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