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[all variants] re-format USB stick with isofs install system?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi - can anyone suggest how to proceed in this interesting situation? I wanted to try out the CrunchBang distro, so I downloaded it and put the install files onto an 2GB USB stick. Didn't work; won't boot. OK, I'll wipe the stick and use it for the next thing... But the stick is formatted with the isofs file system, and Gparted doesn't allow me to reformat it - in fact Gparted can't see anything on the stick, says it has no partition table, and that it can't add a new one. Windows tells me the same. The irritating thing is that Ubuntu mounts the stick and shows the files perfectly (Hardware)

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Submitted by linuxfan on 07/14/2012 – Made popular on 07/14/2012

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I know that there is a lot of software and even in Windows or Linux you can just use commands to do it, but all these alternatives needs to FORMAT the usb stick.

What I'm looking for is some alternative to create an usb booteable stick without the need of formatting it.

That's because I usually have an usb stick that I use to transport files and everything, and I don't like having to backup thes

Ok. For those whose reading comprehension is a little slow.... I created a boot stick with Ubuntu 12.04 to boot a machine where Windows 7 tanked in order to back up files. Boot stick doesn't work, telling me it is missing a kernel. Am using 64-bit desktop version. Have already tried re-doing the boot stick process, using installer, and that didn't help.

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. . . but I cannot get my Asus G74 laptop to boot from the memory stick. I can explore the stick from win7, and the files are there.

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Hi,

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 on my macbook. I downloaded and put it on a usb stick as per these instructions. Everything seems to work fine until I restart my comp and try to boot from the USB: The only option it gives me is macintosh hd.

Hi all,

Config PC-1 AMD Core 4 RAM 8G

PC-2 AMD Core 2 RAM 4G

I run; # fdisk -l to find the device of USB stick

then run; Code: # dd if=/path_to_ISO/.iso_image of=/dev/usd_stick to install the ISO image on the stick.

But the stick works to boot sometimes and fail another time. Same on both PCs. It just hangs there.

Please advise how to fix this problem? TIA

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