RE: liveusb-creator -

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On 2009 November 19 22:13, Bob Goodwin wrote:

> On 19/11/09 14:51, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >    I have been messing with this for several hours now, 
> actually since
> >    yesterday, and can't seem to install livecd on a thumb drive. In
> >    desperation I re-formatted it ext3. That didn't help. I 
> can cp and
> >    delete normal files but liveusb-creator is never happy with it?
> >
> >    [root@box9 ~]# mount
> >    shows:
> >    /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/Fedora type ext3 (rw)
> >
> >    But when I click on "Create Live USB" it displays the following:
> >
> >    Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso selected
> >
> >    Verifying filesystem...
> >
> >    Unknown filesystem for %s. Your device may need to be 
> reformatted.
> >
> >    LiveUSB creation failed!
> >
> >    Unknown filesystem for %s. Your device may need to be 
> reformatted.
> >
> >
> >    Reformatted? I believe it's supposed to work with ext3. 
> It was FAT
> >    originally and that produced the same error!
> >
> >    What am I doing wrong?
> >
> >    This is not critical, I could use a CD, But I've put a 
> lot of time
> >    into this and hate to give up.
> >
> >    Bob.
> >
> 
>         After trying to do this from command line and with the GUI, I
>         plugged in a different thumb drive and things 
> immediately worked
>         as expected!
> 
>         I should have known, I had the other stick because it wouldn't
>         work in my daughter's Mac. It always worked for me before but
>         not this time.

There are /many/ usb sticks out there that do not conform to the
USB specifications.  Some come from very reputable makers.

Dave


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