Problems Creating A Rescue/Live USB Drive

[Shawn H Corey <shawnhcorey@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a Rescue/Live USB drive and I'm following the
instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/powerpc/boot-usb-files.html
but they don't seem right.

I took the following steps:

1. Plug in the USB drive

2. Unmount it:  sudo umount /media/usb_drive

3. Create the partitions:  sudo mac-fdisk /dev/sda
(commands not listed to save space but involve i,C,w,q)

The next step gives an error:  Mount the drive for copying the files
$ sudo hmount /dev/sda2
hmount: /dev/sda2: not a Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument)


Here's the partition map:

$ sudo mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda
/dev/sda
        #                    type name                length   base    (
size )  system
/dev/sda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                   63 @ 1       (
31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/sda2         Apple_Bootstrap boot               2015168 @ 64
(984.0M)  NewWorld bootblock

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=2015232
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0


What am I doing wrong?


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