Question/Problem creating a live USB

[JD]

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<jd1008 at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>>
>>
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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