burn osx to usb drive

[satirev]

hey guys i have a 4gb sandisk cruzer usb thumb drive. I completely erased the drive, and then created a partition, and the partition comes out to 3.66 gb, not enough for lion. Any idea why its not allowing me to make the partition higher?

Thanks

 

[MisterDisney]

Just under the capacity you need. More like 3.8gb.

 

[satirev]

thanks for not answering my question and stating what i already knew...

 

[balamw]

It's probably due to the fact that there are two "gigabytes" in common use.

Drives are typically sold in decimal Gigabytes while the OS reports binary Gibibytes this leads to a ~7.2% reduction in apparent size.

see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

Depending on the drive, there might also be a hidden partition for other purposes, e.g. many drives have a virtual CD partition for install software...

B

 

[MisterDisney]

Sorry, small screen.. Misread. Yeah. That's probably as big as you can get with that one. You'll want to get an 8GB stick.