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

[Adam Olsen]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM, MilesTogoe <miles.togoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> but when i do "df" still does not show (just shows as tempfs
> /dev/shm).  When I run livecd-iso-to-disk it appears to install
> (removing old os, ) but not sure if it's adding the whole iso
> package.    If I boot on it, it just beeps at boot menu (the same iso
> boots okay from cd on my other macbook).  I get the feeling it doesn't
> have the vmlinux startup files but don't know how to check since the dev
> doeesn't seem to mount.

Hal isn't guaranteed to always mount your media automatically.
Sometimes it has problems, sometimes it fails silently.  If /dev/sdb1
doesn't have a filesystem it recognizes, it simply won't appear to do
anything at all.  You can try mounting it manually, something like:

sudo mkdir /mnt/sdb1
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1

See what happens.  Then ls /mnt/sdb1 to see if any files are on there.

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