[lubuntu-users] iso weirdness Diskutil, gparted, MKUSB

[scrooyahoo at riseup.net]

Hi everyone,

I experience some weird behaviour with the FreeDOS ISO

I flashed FreeDOS to an USB.
when i plug the USB in i can open the partition and browse the FreeDOS 
directories

However, when i tru to boot the drive the Acer does not detect it.

Then i tought, to flash it againg but then by usin Unetbootin.

BUT Unetbooting does not detect the USB either
So i look with Gparted. and when i select the drive this-one says 
UNALLOCATED SPACE
Then back to MKUSB.. BUT MKUSB no longer sees the USB
But in PCman i can just browse the drive withouth issues..

Then i installed the Diskutillity from gnome

And thisone sees the USB but it can't remove or edit the partition.

So back to Gparted, this time Gparted does NOTsee the USB.

back again to diskutil
unmounted and remounted the partition
back to gparted and now it again sees /dev/sdb as unallocated diskspace.
Warning: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label

Is there something that i'm missing? Something that diskutil can do that 
gparted can not?  And MKUSB why does that no-longer see the USB stick?

Is there anotherapplication then Diskutilliy or Gparted that is able to 
at least let me remove the partition and format the stick?

I'm sure i'm overlooking something.

The unrecognised disklabel is that caused by the FreeDOS iso or could it 
be a bug in MKUSB?
I'd like to try to flash FreeDOS with Unetbootin but cant figure out why 
Unetbootin does not see the USB at all.