Re: Question/Problem creating a live USB

Saturday, 1 January 2011

On 12/31/2010 10:45 PM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
...
 Hi,

 You have to wipe it the complete USB key again. When the process has
 fails, and finds some fragments - this is the result. Sometimes
 happens.

 Cheers,

 Z
 2011/1/1 JD&lt;jd1008(a)gmail.com&gt;:
> Using liveusbcreator to dump a linux (not of any distro) iso image onto
> a 256GiB flash drive (Made by Kensignton).
>
> After selecting the linux ISO image, and setting the
> value of the persistent storage, I click Create Live USB.
> I get this error message:
>
> Unknown filesystem. Your device may need to be reformatted.
>
>
> The usb flash drive has partition 1 as a fat32 filesystem. It was
> rejected by liveusbcreator with same error message as above.
>
> So, I formatted it as a Ext3 filesystem. Got the same error message.
>
>
> Next I tried
> /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk cd100627.iso /dev/sdc
>
> Verifying image...
> /sdb4/Download/OfflineNTpassword/BootCD/cd100627.iso: Could not get pvd data
> Unable to read the disc checksum from the primary volume descriptor.
> This probably means the disc was created without adding the checksum.Are
> you SURE you want to continue?
> Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort
> I press enter, and it exits without creating the bootable usb.
>
> So, I tried to use windows and follow the iso creator's instructions to
> transfer the iso to flash disk. My winxp-sp3 does not recognize the
> drive. And when I try to format the drive,  windows says it was not
> able to format the drive.
>
> It is indeed strange that I can format it under Linux, and mount it
> and use it the ordinary way. But I cannot transfer the iso image to it.
>
> Any ideas what to do next?
>
> Thanx for your help.
>
>
> --
> users mailing list
> users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> I assume that by "wipe it" you mean that
I should run the /usr/bin/wipe utility on it?
I thought mkfs cleans it up sufficiently so that
it is recognized as fat partition or an ext2 partition.
Nevertheless, I will try your suggestion.

Cheers,

JD