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

[Adam Olsen]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:15 PM, MilesTogoe <miles.togoe at gmail.com> 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.

Unplug your usb drive, and plug it back in.  Type "dmesg", it should
give you some device information.  You'll see something like this:

[69192.265021] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[69192.266317] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] 3948544 512-byte logical blocks:
(2.02 GB/1.88 GiB)
[69192.267006] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[69192.267011] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[69192.267015] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[69192.269133] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[69192.269138]  sdc: sdc1

Maybe without the sdc1, but you'll know that your device is /dev/sdc,
at which point you can run parted on /dev/sdc, or fdisk, and create a
new partition table or partition.

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