Using latest Ubuntu and a 16gb usb pen.
I've read everything I can find that is relevant and am still stuck.

I do this twice to identify the drive -
sudo fdisk -l

Then I do this -
sudo dd if=kali-linux-1.0.9a-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=512k

And get roughly this -
5823+1 records in
5823+1 records out
3053371392 bytes (3.1 GB) copied, 746.211 s, 4.1 MB/s

I do this to verify 2 partitions -
sudo fdisk -l

Lastly, I do these two commands -
end=14gb
read start _ < <(du -bcm kali-linux-1.0.8-amd64.iso | tail -1); echo $start
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary $start $end

But when I next check the drives with this -
sudo fdisk -l

It still states 2 partitions.

This might be something solved somewhere else, but I seriously can't find that solution and it may seem easy to you but I am totally stuck and have been for hours.