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

[MilesTogoe]

On 10/15/2009 11:22 AM, Jason Gerfen wrote:
> 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.
>    

no, neither of these (and modprobe needs parameter, I used -l) shows the 
flash device - I should be clear, "df" shows the hard drives fine, just 
the flash drive shows as tempfs  /dev/shm/  -


> 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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