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

[Jason Gerfen]

Look at your devices
%> lspci

Look at your loaded modules for usb devices
%> modprobe | grep usb

At that point you would simply need to determine which file contains 
your device information. ie. /dev/sd0 etc.

MilesTogoe 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.


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