Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

[Abu Attar Musharih]

Hi,

It is good to have several methods available.
Before installing  'gparted', I  again use the native command  dd,
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': No space left on device
15663105+0 records in
15663104+0 records out
8019509248 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2748.04 s, 2.9 MB/s
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It seems OK up to this point. The 8G is there. However, partitioning
with /sbin/fdisk and reformatting with mke2fs did not gave  8G.
> mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 -L 8G-USB'
The browser shows only 6.8 G free. I should probably format with FAT32
OR perhaps the file browser of genome on FC7 failed to show the actual
amount of free space.

Back to my main subject,  I tried  "livecd-iso-to-disk" for creating a
live-boot stick.
It did not work on my FC7, a couple of packages are missing
(checkisomd5 and udevadm).
The messages are

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[root at localhost LiveOS]# ./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512
/home/me/Download/Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdb1
Verifying image...
./livecd-iso-to-disk: line 399: checkisomd5: command not found
Are you SURE you want to continue?
Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort

./livecd-iso-to-disk: line 50: udevadm: command not found
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.
Partition isn't marked bootable!
You can mark the partition as bootable with
    # /sbin/parted /dev//
    (parted) toggle N boot
    (parted) quit
Cleaning up to exit...
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Then, I got back using the dd and it is now OK.

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dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1
1382400+0 records in
1382400+0 records out
707788800 bytes (708 MB) copied, 589.826 s, 1.2 MB/s
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Last step,  just need to "chown" the mount point for the media to be  writeable.

root> chown username /media/disk/

Thanks,
AA