I swear every time I try Linux .... Grrrrrr! Ubuntu 12.10 live cd. I'm simply trying to make a bootable USB thumb drive. That's it. First attempt: live cd boots okay, I insert my (fat32 formatted and ...

There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.

Ubuntu has their "Startup Disk Creator", which also works on derivatives like Mint, Jolicloud and such; Fedora has a "LiveUSB Creator". Taking another approach, several of the distributions use ...