I was root. I did have complete write access to the drive. The script is not fine, there are 2 people, 3 different operating systems that it didn't work on. Parrot fixed it with using a different...

[QUOTE=parrott;67623]
Hey parrott.
If you have access to a windows machine then run bootinst.bat
that script works.

It's not really a reading issue, the instructions are right in the archive file. It is an issue of the bootinst.sh script not properly executing on Ubuntu (A very popular distro) or Backtrack 2 final...

I have the same problem using both ubuntu and backtrack 2 final to try to make a bootable bt3 usb stick. Google brought up a fix or two but neither worked.