Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

[Charles Russell <worwor@bellsouth.net>]

I tried creating a second FAT partition with gparted.  Although I could 
access the second partition with Linux ,  I could not access it with 
Windows XP or Windows 7.  Windows does not appear capable of recognizing 
more than one partition on a flash drive. The partitioning/formatting 
utility in Windows 7 does not allow formatting the unused part of the 
flash drive.

I wanted access the whole flash drive from either operating system, and 
got the following to work: To avoid renaming isolinux to syslinux in the 
configuration files, start with the .img format and not the .iso format 
when using dd.  Then  extend the size of the first partition with 
gparted to fill the USB. ( This made the drive unbootable.)  Next 
download the Windows (or Linux) executable from the syslinux site and 
run "syslinux.exe --install --mbr --active E:" (or whatever drive letter 
matches the USB).