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So what you’ll have to be aware of:

Don’t forget to check the partition table of your pendrive / usbstick because on mine there was a small 4mb unpartitioned space.

Here is the way to do it:

• Plug your memory stick / usbstick / pendrive in.
• check where is th device node in /dev with the command: dmesg
• switch to root, su or use sudo to get access of device nodes
• sudo cfdisk /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or anything that your systemuse as your pendrives devicenode.
• check the partition table, if there is a small space unpartitioned, delete the partition after it and creat a new full sized partition, and set the boot flag on.
• Don’t forget to write the changes to disk.

So when your done, create a file system on your drive, it could be vfat if you want to run unetbootin from xp/vista or ext2 if you want to use unetbootin from linux.

mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1 or mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 (replace sdb2 with your /dev/sdxy  x=[a,b,c…[   y=1

Get unetbootin from this link or from your distros repo if it exists there:

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Run unetbootin, grab the chakra-livecd.iso image, and use this very small and easily usable program to make your usbstick to run as chakra livecd.

Plug-In, reboot, choose USB-Boot in the Boot-Menu, and you’re done.

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External links:

http://neolamb.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/chakra-public-alpha-1-usb-install/
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