- Unzip it and dd it to my USB flash drive (`dd if=nightly.image of=/path/to/flash/drive' under OS X 10.6.2)
which path are you using ? on linux it is important that you dd to /dev/sdx and not /dev/sdx1, in order to get something bootable.
The other parts seem fine. -- Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy http://pulkomandy.ath.cx