[Fedora-livecd-list] Making a Live USB stick from running Live CD session: Unable to fit live image FAILURE

[Robert Kwasniewski]

I am new to Fedora. I was trying to make a Live USB from a running  
Live CD session per the instructions here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo

About half way down that page:

Bootable USB from a running Live CD/DVD
If you are already running a live CD or DVD and want to convert that  
into a bootable USB stick, run the following command:

livecd-iso-to-disk /dev/live /path/tousbstick



With a 4GB SanDisk Cruzer mounted as sdi1, I went into /mnt/live/ 
LiveOS and ran:

./livecd-iso-to-disk squashfs.img  /dev/sdi1




The script runs, and asks to add an MBR etc, but it cannot complete  
and gives this message:



Unable to fit live image + overlay on available space on USB stick

Size of live image: 4096

Overlay size:

Available space: 3729

Cleaning up to exit...



The squashfs.img is 686MB, so this should work? I also tried --no- 
verify and --overlay-size-mb set to zero and low values. I got the  
same message. I did some searching, and found a thread about tricks  
for doing Live USB from Live CD:

  http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2008-05/msg02160.html

However, I figured since it was in the wiki, it is supposed to work.  
Also, the code that I saw was referencing $CDMNT and $USBMNT, but I  
have no such environment variables on my running Live install. Any  
clues?



Thanks,



Rob