For various reasons (not important here) I've decided that the best way to fix what's wrong with my laptop is to nuke, reformat and re-install from scratch. Normally, I'd download the install DVD's .iso, but I'm having trouble getting things to burn correctly on either my desktop or my laptop. Instead, I've been trying to use liveusb-creator to move the .iso onto an 8 GB flash drive, as I know that the laptop can boot that way. I've tried, twice, but I end up with only 171.3 MB used. I've not done anything with the partitioning/formatting of the drive because I didn't have to when I put a liveCD image onto a smaller drive. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Do I have to reformat it first with an ext4 filesystem?
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