Issue with Live USB drive

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#1

Hi,

I created a live usb drive with the help of following wiki.

Live USB stick - openSUSE

But now I’m not able to use this drive as a normal usb stick. Every time I insert it, system shows me it as cdrom.

Please help me to revert it back as a normal USB drive.

Regards,
Anant

#2

You can simply go to YaST and use the partitioner there. Here is a screenshot that shows my live cd USB stick:
http://thumbnails6.imagebam.com/7663/10496b76626821.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/10496b76626821)
In the lower right corner there is a button labeled “Expert”. If you click it there’ll be a menu point called “Create New Partition Table.” That will do what I think you ask for, i.e. revert the USB stick to a totally clean and pristine state.

But watch out that you do not accidentally do this to the wrong drive. :wink:

#3

Or use dd

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/???

replace ??? with usb device id Eg; sdd

#4

Are you trying to blank the usb stick or boot from it? You say it’s showing up as a cdrom, where is this, from bios or automount? If bios, you may need to change the bios settings. If it’s automount, please post the contents of /etc/fstab.

#5

usb sticks that have been dd’ with a .iso do show as a cdrom, this is normal.

#6

Thanks for that info Caf, I hadn’t done that before.:wink:

#7

Thanks it works :slight_smile:

#8

Thnaks it works :slight_smile: