Build a Live USB disk

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find out the location of your USB drive

you can use the mount command to do this: 

mount

On a single drive system the usb drive is likely on /dev/sdb (but be very sure of your drive. You will loose all data on what ever drive is specified as 'of=') 

sudo dd if=disk.raw of=/dev/sdb bs=4k

if = input file; of = output file; bs = block size

this will take time, ~20 minutes

rebuild partition table

Some USB keys will require rebuilding of partition table (e.g. if initial dd write fails). Use GParted to rebuild partition table: Device -> Create Partition Table -> MSDOS

reformat drive

Some USB keys will required reformating of their hard drive. Use GParted to format to FAT32, this will allow Windows machines to read the USBSHARE partition to exchange files via the USB key.

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