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

[Adam Olsen]

Well, once you get the drive to recognize, ubuntu actually comes with
a USB boot disk creation utility.

System->Administration->USB Startup Disk Creator

Or just run gksu usb-creator-gtk

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Clay Moultrie <clay.osi at gmail.com> wrote:
> This won't help the usb device not recognizing, and this may be an
> amateur way to go about this but try downloading and using unetbootin
> once you get the usb drive functioning, i've been using it for the
> last 2 releases. check it out here.
> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/  I use this every time I have to
> install on a netbook. it works great.
>
> Clay
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Adam Olsen <arolsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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