liveusb-creator -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Nov 19 23:15:25 UTC 2009
On 19/11/09 17:35, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> writes:
>
>> LiveUSB creation failed!
>>
>> Unknown filesystem for %s. Your device may need to be reformatted.
>>
> If you haven't already done so you may want to start from the beginning
> and assume the usb stick has trash for a disklabel and needs to have
> that rewritten also. Then you need to mark it as ext3 and finally
> mkfs.ext3 the partition.
>
> Simplest way to do all the above is to yum install gparted, have it
> delete any partitions it finds. Then have it create a label with one
> partition that spans the whole drive, label it as ext3 and format as
> ext3. (I just needed to do that for an f12 install on a dvdless
> netbook. Don't ask me why the liveusb creator doesn't just do all
> that. It isn't likely that many folks installing a Linux OS for the
> first time are going to be able to figure out all the above.)
>
> -wolfgang
>
I think I did essentially the same thing, I used fdisk to
reformat the drive as Linux [83] then did mkfs ext3.
I was able to copy a text file to it, display the file, and then
remove it. Everything seemed to work, I just couldn't copy the
F12 LiveCD iso to it with livecd-tools or liveusb-creator. It
was a 2 gig stick containing no other files.
Put the other stick in and it worked. Obviously there's
something wrong, perhaps with my process? I have another
computer running F12 on the thumb drive now. Next to decide if I
want to install from that or try an upgrade procedure. I always
have to consider bandwidth usage sine I am limited by Wildblue
to 17 gigs/30days. I'm presently around six gigs used! That's
why I've been installing from the livecd versions and just
adding what I want.
Thanks for the response.
Bob
livecd-tools
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