When you boot the usb it creates a _small ramdisk for the installation to run from. Your notebook drive sd0 gets mounted on /mnt. The sets stay on the usb.
If you look in /dev there are probably no sd1 files created (which I guess is where the usb stick is, provided there are no other disks present.) So drop to a shell # export TERM=vt220 # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV sd1 (!! Do not omit the sd1 or you will exhaust the ramdrive !!) # mkdir /usb # disklabel sd1 and you should see which partition your usb device is. Best