I am trying to make Liveusb with persistence
i downloaded live gnome version which is in .iso format
i also downloaded win32diskimager mentioned on this page
Live USB stick - openSUSE but it only .img files
i also tried unetbootin ,there is no option for 11.2 version
my laptop doesn’t have cd/dvd drive so to install on hardisk i have to do it by usb,so i thouht of going for live usb. are there any alternatives
rteja11 wrote:
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> I am trying to make Liveusb with persistence
> i downloaded live gnome version which is in .iso format
> i also downloaded win32diskimager mentioned on this page
> ‘Live USB stick - openSUSE’ (http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick) but
> it only .img files
> i also tried unetbootin ,there is no option for 11.2 version
> my laptop doesn’t have cd/dvd drive so to install on hardisk i have to
> do it by usb,so i thouht of going for live usb. are there any
> alternatives
>
>
Why do you need a 11.2 option in unetbootin?
You have the disk image so choose “Image” “ISO” and select your downloaded
image in unetbootin.
I do not know if it works with unetbootin because someone reported a
problem, but simply give it a try. If it does not work nothing is lost.
No it didn’t work.
I prepared usb on booting it gave some error
says can’t load from usb
rteja11 wrote:
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> No it didn’t work.
> I prepared usb on booting it gave some error
> says can’t load from usb
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I just tested the description from your original post
(http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick)
I used the dd command to create the stick and booted my netbook with it ->
no problem so far (it does not like my screen resolution on it, but that has
nothing to do with booting from usb).
Did you try this also or do you have only a windows available to create the
usb stick (I saw you downloaded a windows program)?
yea i am working from windows
and i don’t know anything about dd stuff
rteja11 wrote:
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> yea i am working from windows
> and i don’t know anything about dd stuff
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In the link you showed in your first post there is a description about the
software you mentioned to make an usb stick.
It is also described what to do to use a iso file.
If you have problems because it has the ending .iso and not .img you should
simply rename the .iso file to have .img at thge end.
That is the easist solution.
If then the usb stick still does not boot I am sure it is
- your usb stick is somehow broken
- your settings on the notebook to boot from usb is somehow not correct
Ensure that no other usb device is connected to the notebook when you try to
boot from usb to avoid confusion.
rteja11 wrote:
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> No it didn’t work.
> I prepared usb on booting it gave some error
> says can’t load from usb
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The notebook says that?
What is the exact message?
Does it boot and then some time later there is a problem?
Does it not even boot at all from the stick?
Please give more details, I cannot really guess how this looks like.
Martin Helm wrote:
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> 1) your usb stick is somehow broken
> 2) your settings on the notebook to boot from usb is somehow not correct
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> Ensure that no other usb device is connected to the notebook when you try
> to boot from usb to avoid confusion.
Of course there is third possibility
- your notebook hardware is simply incompatible with opensuse
What hardware is it?
have u done this
Select your ISO image, by clicking the folder icon near the “Image File” box and navigating to the directory where your ISO file is. If you don’t see your image, be sure to select “*.iso” into the “File Name” box.
u might have to write *.iso and press enter , because there is no option for iso files. thats how i did it
Finally i got it to workrotfl!rotfl!
martin_helm your idea worked
i changed file extension to .img. Before i was searching for .iso to .img converters, i never thought changing the file format would do it
It is my first time working in suse and it looks great
before this i tried ubuntu.
Hey can you tell me how to make persistence,i tried it for ubuntu it worked
http://software.opensuse.org/112/en
On this page there are three options for download DVD,Live Gnome,Live KDE whats difference b/n them?
Thanks every one with the help:)
rteja11 wrote:
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> Hey can you tell me how to make persistence,i tried it with ubuntu it
> worked
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> http://software.opensuse.org/112/en
> On this page there are three options for download DVD,Live Gnome,Live
> KDE whats difference b/n them?
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> Thanks every one with the help:)
>
>
Good so the basics work.
Never tried to make a opersistent usb stick so I hope someone else can
comment on it.
Diffrence between the downloads (very short):
The 4 gig dvd is for installation on harddisk it is not meant to be used for
a live system. If you want a live opensuse go for one of the two live cd’s.
As the name suggests they differ in what desktop they use.
If you prefer kde go for the live kde cd, if you prefer gnoe go for the live
gnome cd.
It is a matter of taste more than everything else.
Since opensuse is more kde centric than other linux distributions I would
personally prefer kde live (but as I said choose what you prefer).
I don’t think it will work for Ubuntu cause I searched around and didn’t found much on openSUSE 11.2 being persistent. If you do find a way, please post. Thanks.
I have never done it but it seems to me that if you change the location where files are mounted to the stick rather then the RAM disk. I’d look in the /etc/fstab file. Post it here and maybe we can figure it out.
I’ve tried making a live usb stick with persistence and without persistence. I tried that with 2 different iso’s with good md5. As I posted here, I get an error that isolinux.bin is missing or corrupt.
Can anyone help?
I’ve tried making a live usb stick with persistence and without persistence. I tried that with 2 different iso’s with good md5. As I posted here, I get an error that isolinux.bin is missing or corrupt.
Can anyone help?
Having trouble editing posts in Chromium. I get the “snap” page.
My first post had a bad link. I did not think an edit would give me a double post. Sorry for that.
Also, I forgot to mention that burning the iso to disk gives me a working Live CD.
I tried with unetbootin and other tools including the Win32DiskImager by following on the website in Opensuse for live USB: Live USB stick - openSUSE. It just won’t work because the most important is the Boot Loader, and the unetbootin created a bugggy bootloader which won’t install Opensuse, I think there are some bugs in it. I couldn’t do Win32DiskImager as I tried to make a bootable live USB and it just won’t work because the USB stick becomes unrecongised to boot and even viewing its content. It doesn’t make a difference by changing the extension to .img; It’s still won’t work. A dvd and cd iso image shouldn’t make a difference because I tried to install Windows 7 recently with the same USB stick and it worked, so I think both of the programs got some bugs in it.