Hi everyone,
I am trying to install openSUSE 64 bit with KDE on my netbook and I am having some issues. I can’t get the install started. I tried creating a live usb by using the SUSE Studio Image Writer, but I get an error saying:
Exception caught during write: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception:
Access is denied
at ImageWriter.DriveAccess.Write(Byte] buffer, UInt32 len)
at ImageWriter.MainWindow.WriteToDisk()
(This happens when I try to make the usb)
I tried Googling it but I couldn’t find anything so I tried creating a live usb using UNetbootin but when I boot from the usb, I get an error saying: Could not find kernel image: gfxboot.
I have a 2 gb usb with FAT file format. Also I am only in High School, I want to try out different Linux distros so tell me if I did something wrong.
You may have a bad download of the Image Writer. You might want to try again. I have not looked but there may be a check sum that can be used to check the download. Also make sure the USB device is not set to read only
AFAIK you can’t use UNetbooten to make a OpenSUSE pen drive. There is a method that uses the dd command but you need to be very careful because if you do it wrong you can cause massive problems. dd is a very powerful command and it does no hand holding.
On 09/07/2011 10:26 PM, mudi783 wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to install openSUSE 64 bit with KDE on my netbook and I am
> having some issues. I can’t get the install started. I tried creating a
> live usb by using the SUSE Studio Image Writer, but I get an error
> saying:
> Exception caught during write: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception:
> Access is denied
> at ImageWriter.DriveAccess.Write(Byte] buffer, UInt32 len)
> at ImageWriter.MainWindow.WriteToDisk()
> (This happens when I try to make the usb)
> I tried Googling it but I couldn’t find anything so I tried creating a
> live usb using UNetbootin but when I boot from the usb, I get an error
> saying: Could not find kernel image: gfxboot.
>
> I have a 2 gb usb with FAT file format. Also I am only in High School,
> I want to try out different Linux distros so tell me if I did something
> wrong.
>
> Thanks in advance…
>
>
-=WELCOME=- new poster and welcome to free and open source software, in
the form of openSUSE Linux…
if i were you i would borrow a USB connected CD/DVD writer, and just
download the 64 bit KDE Live CD from here http://software.opensuse.org/114/en, burn it to a disk, boot from it, do
this http://tinyurl.com/455hbml and if it checks good, then boot from it
and try openSUSE from the live disk…you can get an idea of how it
goes (knowing that it WILL run faster from your hard drive–and, don’t
forget that openSUSE is not a “Windows replacement” it doesn’t look or
act like Windows…lots to learn, see our wiki <en.opensuse.org> and
documentation <doc.opensuse.org>) and then when you decide to install
it, you can back up your important data, do some reading, like:
I personally prefer a DVD or NET install using either a USB DVD/CD reader or USB memory stick. The Live CD installs provide neither the minimal download, maximum flexibility of a NET install nor the all-in-one convenience of a DVD install.
It appears that if your flash drive is already formated (usable, factory default), the ImageWriter.exe is unable to clean/create partitions and build the bootable openSUSE.
What I’ve done was usign DISKPART to clean my usb (yes, ripped all out to RAW drive, without partitions).
Then, when tried running ImageWriter again, BOOM - SUCCESS!
Since I run Linux and don’t have to deal with Windows. I started using cp (copy command) specifying the drive not a partition as target. Also dd works. Essentially you want to do a direct binary copy to the device. Do not mess with the iso format or apply helper programs . openSUSE does not need or want that
