Turning a USB thumb drive into a Linux rescue disk from Windows proved to be a little more time consuming that expected. Here's what I've found works:
- download the USB Universal Installer from here
- run the installer
- agree to the licensing terms
- select the distro you want (e.g. Ubuntu Rescue Remix 11.04)
- if necessary, download the iso (the installer may offer to find the URR iso.. it did for me!)
- if necessary, browse to the iso (again, the installer remembered where the URR iso was)
- select the thumb drive's drive letter (it should have already been formatted for FAT32)
- if desired, set a size for the persistent drive
Once that's done, do this to avoid further frustrations:
- browse to syslinux folder on the thumb drive
- open the syslinux.cfg file and make sure the initrd option points at /casper/initrd.gz instead of initrd.lz
That should be it, as far as I know.
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