how to create a live usb stick

[Tom Masterson]

Thanks this appears to have worked.

Tom

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Dave Hunt wrote:

> Hi, Tom!
>
> The first time I did this, I used the unetbootin tool, with commandline 
> options.  This put the system onto the flash drive, as if I'd gone through 
> Ubiquity, and started a Unity-3d session, on boot-up,which did not work well. 
> Attempts to change the desktop to Unity-2d, by editing a file in 
> /var/lib/AccountsService/users/ubuntu resulted in a system that would not 
> bring up any kind of desktop.  As a result of some discussions on this list, 
> here's what I ended up doing.
>
> Keep in mind, I was already using Trisquel 5.5 beta.  If using any 
> ubuntu-style desktop Linux, this will work.
>
>
> 1) insert flash drive;
> If nautilus window, showing contents show up, note the volume's name, and 
> close window;
> 3) open a terminal;
> 4) sudo -i;
> 5) enter password for sudo;
> 6) umount /media/drive-name;
> 7) dd if=/path-to-iso-file of=/dev/sdb bs=1M;
> (this assumes your flash is /dev/sdb, adjust accordingly)
> 8) when dd command finishes, make sure bits-in and bites-written are equal;
> 9)exit;
> 10) close terminal.
>
> If you want persistence:
> with flash drive inserted and unmounted, open disk utility or gparted, on 
> your flash drive, you should see one bootable partition the size of the iso 
> file, and the rest of the space as unallocated.  Make a new partition of type 
> 'ext3', and call it casper-rw; this is your persistent storage.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> On 04/13/2012 11:59 AM, Tom Masterson wrote:
>> On the stuff I have found on the web it says to use usb-creator to
>> create the flash drive. As I recall that particular package is not very
>> usable. Is there another way to create a usb stick to try precise?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Tom
>> 
>
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