A persistent space of 650 MB (on the same 2GB flash drive) goes OK too. ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ usb-creator -- Starting up at 18:42:52 -- [18:42:52] /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py:242: DeprecationWarning: object.__init__() takes no parameters super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) [18:42:52] got a disc: Ubuntu 9.04 i386 [18:42:52] new device: {'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_623E_568B', 'capacity': dbus.UInt64(1967058432L), 'uuid': '623E-568B', 'device': '/dev/sdb1', 'mountpoint': '', 'fstype': 'vfat', 'free': 0, 'label': ''} [18:42:52] adding: /dev/sdb1 [18:42:52] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state [18:42:55] ['mount', '-t', 'vfat', '/dev/sdb1', '/tmp/tmpessn3J'] [18:42:55] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state [18:42:55] prop modified [18:42:55] device_udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_623E_568B [18:42:55] num_changes: 2 [18:42:55] change: volume.mount_point [18:42:55] change: volume.is_mounted [18:43:09] Installing... [18:43:11] Source CD: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_Ubuntu_9_04_i386 [18:43:11] Destination disk: /dev/sdb1 [18:43:11] Persistence size: 635513971 B [18:43:11] Marking partition 1 as active. [18:43:11] installing the bootloader to /dev/sdb. [18:43:11] ['dd', 'if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin', u'of=/dev/sdb', 'bs=446', 'count=1', 'conv=sync'] [18:43:11] installing the bootloader to /dev/sdb1. [18:43:11] ['syslinux', '/dev/sdb1'] [18:43:11] ['parted', '-s', dbus.String(u'/dev/sdb'), 'set', u'1', 'boot', 'on'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/autorun.inf'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/casper'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/dists'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/install'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/isolinux'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/md5sum.txt'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/pics'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/pool'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/preseed'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/README.diskdefines'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/ubuntu'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/wubi.exe'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '-rf', u'/tmp/tmpessn3J/.disk'] [18:43:12] ['rm', '/tmp/tmpessn3J/casper-rw'] [18:43:12] ['/usr/share/usb-creator/install.py', '-s', u'/cdrom/.', '-t', '/tmp/tmpessn3J', '-p', '635513971'] [18:53:29] /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/usbcreator/gtk_frontend.py:477: GtkWarning: gtk_progress_set_percentage: assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed self.progress_bar.set_fraction(val / 100.0) [18:53:46] Unmounting target volume. [18:53:46] ['umount', '/tmp/tmpessn3J'] [18:53:48] ['rmdir', '/tmp/tmpessn3J'] [18:53:48] Install command exited with code: 0 [18:53:54] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state [18:53:54] prop modified [18:53:54] device_udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_623E_568B [18:53:54] num_changes: 2 [18:53:54] change: volume.mount_point [18:53:54] change: volume.is_mounted [18:54:02] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state [18:54:02] prop modified [18:54:02] device_udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_623E_568B [18:54:02] num_changes: 2 [18:54:02] change: volume.mount_point [18:54:02] change: volume.is_mounted ubuntu@ubuntu:~$