Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-09 Thread JD
On 07/09/2010 08:06 PM, fred smith wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:22:26AM +0900, Abu Attar Musharih wrote: >>> 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 udev

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-09 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:22:26AM +0900, Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > > 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). > > Can anyone let me know which packag

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-09 Thread Abu Attar Musharih
> 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). Can anyone let me know which package to download so the two commands available? I searched the reps of FC7 and did

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-09 Thread john wendel
On 07/09/2010 12:35 AM, Thomas Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:41:29 +0900 > Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > > >> 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 bro

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-09 Thread Darr
On Friday, 09 July, 2010 @07:35 zulu, Thomas Taylor scribed: > The apparent size difference could be in how the sizes are > calculated. One program may use the 1K = 1000 Bytes where the other > may use 1K = 1024Bytes which would result in the latter displaying a > smaller size. Also, if you use a

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-09 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:41:29 +0900 Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > 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 wi

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread JD
On 07/08/2010 11:41 PM, Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > Hi, > > It is good to have several methods available. > Before installing 'gparted', I again use the native command dd, > - >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb > dd: writing to `/dev/sdb

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread Abu Attar Musharih
Hi, It is good to have several methods available. Before installing 'gparted', I again use the native command dd, - > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': No space left on device 15663105+0 records in 15663104+0 r

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread Steven I Usdansky
- Original Message > From: fred smith > To: Community support for Fedora users > Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 2:15:59 PM > Subject: Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick > > A few months ago I did an actual install onto a USB stick, rather than > one of the

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread JD
On 07/08/2010 06:08 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Abu Attar Musharih > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I made a live bootable Fedora-13 on Buffalo 8G usb stick using Linux >> command >> >>> dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1 >> It was successful apart from no longer

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:38:25PM +0900, Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > Hi, > > I made a live bootable Fedora-13 on Buffalo 8G usb stick using Linux > command > > > dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1 > > It was successful apart from no longer able to copy any file on it. > The live Fe

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 21:38:25 +0900, Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > Hi, > > I made a live bootable Fedora-13 on Buffalo 8G usb stick using Linux > command > > > dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1 That's the wrong device. If you use dd you need to overwrite starting at the beginnin

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread Mick M.
> The question, how can I recover  the original volume > amount, 8G. If > this is related to the file systems (ext3), which one > should I choose > so the volume get back to the original. > > Thanks for any kind of response. > > AA > -- Try this: open a terminal 'su -' become root 'fdisk -l'

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 07/08/2010 09:08 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Abu Attar Musharih > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I made a live bootable �Fedora-13 on Buffalo 8G �usb stick �using Linux >> command >> >>> dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1 >> >> It was successful apart from no longe

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > Hi, > > I made a live bootable  Fedora-13 on Buffalo 8G  usb stick  using Linux > command > >> dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1 > > It was successful apart from no longer able to copy any file on  it. > The live Fedora only occ

Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-08 Thread Abu Attar Musharih
Hi, I made a live bootable Fedora-13 on Buffalo 8G usb stick using Linux command > dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1 It was successful apart from no longer able to copy any file on it. The live Fedora only occupied 700M while the media is 8G. I got the following message when trying