fedora 12 beta liveusb creation fail

[Nyan]

Hi all, I downloaded Fedora12-Beta-i686Liveiso and used liveusb-creator to install it to 2GB usb drive.
This is the error message that i got.
F12-Beta-i686-Live.iso selected
Verifying filesystem...
Verifying ISO MD5 checksum
ISO MD5 checksum passed
Extracting live image to USB device...
Wrote to device at 2 MB/sec
Wrote to device at 663 MB/sec
Creating 1041MB persistent overlay
Setting up OLPC boot file...
Installing bootloader...
Unable to find partition
LiveUSB creation failed!
Unable to find partition
I've tried more than 2 times and it's the same...
Could anyone help me ?
Thanks!

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

You can actually just use dd if you are running linux starting from Fedora 12 Beta

# dd if=<isoname> of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

Where /dev/sdc is the name of the USB device

http://domsch.com/blog/?p=112

[Nyan]

I'm currently using fedora 11. If I use dd, do I need syslinux the usb ?
Thanks.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

If the ISO file you are trying to create a Live USB out of is a Fedora 12 Beta image, it is enough to just use dd.

[kyryder]

Just tried that with f12 beta [twice] and it would only boot as far as the login screen.:)

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

What happens after that? What hardware is this? Give more details please

[kyryder]

Hello Rahul,

When I clicked on login I think x was crashing I would get a black screen for about 2 seconds and then it would go back to the login screen.
I was testing on a Dell inspiron e1505 with intel 945 graphics

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

Try

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#Miscellaneous_problems_with_Intel_ graphics_adapters

[kyryder]

Hi,
I will try that and follow up with a bug report if necessary

Thanks.

[Nyan]

Now fedora 12 live usb is working! perfectly as in fedora 11 of course. :D
RahulSundaram, will the data still be persistent by using dd ?

[kyryder]

Turns out that my problem must be usb related for I have been able to boot Fedora 12 beta just fine from a live cd.

[RahulSundaram]

Now fedora 12 live usb is working! perfectly as in fedora 11 of course. :D
RahulSundaram, will the data still be persistent by using dd ?

No. As indicated in the Fedora 12 Beta announcement, if you want persistence, you need to use liveusb-creator or livecd-iso-to-disk script from livecd-tools package.