Booting OpenSuse 11.1 on USB stick with Persistence

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Hi,

I’m trying to get a bootable/runnable openSUSE distro from a USB stick.

I got it installed and booting from my USB stick using the Windows UNetbootin utility, but step 3 on the website (UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads) says “After rebooting, select the UNetbootin entry from the menu list as the system boots up”, however there doesn’t seem to be any option like this. The only options are:

  1. Default
  2. openSUSE_Live_(KDE)
  3. Failsafe_Settings
  4. mediacheck
  5. memtest

Choosing ANY of the options runs through the usual text boot echos, but it hangs at the following:

------->Waiting for CD/DVD devices to appear…
------->Mounting live boot drive…
------->Couldnt find live image configuration file
------->rebootexception: error consoles at Alt-F3/F4
------->rebootexception: reboot in 120 sec…

Ive tried this with 2 USB sticks, one was a 2GB Sony, the other a 4GB LG
I used the live cd distro: “openSUSE-11.1-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso”. Is this the right one to use?

Any help for a noob would be greatly appreciated.

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I am getting the exact same error. I am using an OCZ 16GB stick. Trying to install this as a dual boot with XP on another partition.

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openSUSE News » Unofficial KDE 3.5 Live CD for openSUSE 11.1 includes unofficial Live USB

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openSUSE 11.1 KDE3 Live USB: i686 (md5, sha1), x86_64 (md5, sha1) (instructions)

Typing “opensuse USB 11.1 install site:opensuse.org” into Google may throw up issues and solutions other ppl ran into previously.

Good luck.

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How to Make openSUSE 11.1 LiveUSB | Spirit of Change

also if you still get the same issue… try changing config.isoclient to config.kde.isoclient [or config.gnome.isoclient] but you need to delete the original config.isoclient prior to this ofcourse :slight_smile:

goodluck