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

[MilesTogoe]

On 10/15/2009 12:38 PM, Adam Olsen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM, MilesTogoe<miles.togoe at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> but when i do "df" still does not show (just shows as tempfs
>> /dev/shm).  When I run livecd-iso-to-disk it appears to install
>> (removing old os, ) but not sure if it's adding the whole iso
>> package.    If I boot on it, it just beeps at boot menu (the same iso
>> boots okay from cd on my other macbook).  I get the feeling it doesn't
>> have the vmlinux startup files but don't know how to check since the dev
>> doeesn't seem to mount.
>>      
> Hal isn't guaranteed to always mount your media automatically.
> Sometimes it has problems, sometimes it fails silently.  If /dev/sdb1
> doesn't have a filesystem it recognizes, it simply won't appear to do
> anything at all.  You can try mounting it manually, something like:
>
> sudo mkdir /mnt/sdb1
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
>
> See what happens.  Then ls /mnt/sdb1 to see if any files are on there.
>    

interesting - on the usb drive I have /syslinux with a bunch of files 
underneath,  and /LiveOS with total 0.

I'm trying to run this livecd-iso-to-disk from Fedora (I'm trying to 
change my netbook over to karmic) but I was assuming livecd-iso-to-disk 
is not vendor specific ?  or maybe Karmic still isn't right on this yet ?