Can't install openSUSE 11.2 kde-4

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#1

Used unetbootin but didn’t work,
During booting , get error,“rebootexception console problem ALT+F3/ALT+F4” or like that.

Why doesn’t it work with unetbootin?

#2

9313767747ac5dc326a45ab6585bbf45 openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso

#3

Because unetbootin sucks and cannot write raw images straight to the USB stick.

Do you have a Linux box handy?

#4

What would i do now ?
I do not want to burn it to cd.
Debian is installed.

#5

You can write it directly to the USB stick via your Debian system.

dd if=file.iso of=/dev/usbstick bs=4M

Where file.iso is the name of the .iso file and full path to it and usbstick is the name of your usb stick.

Note, make sure you are writing to the right usb device, for example /dev/sde. To find out the devices in your system you can use; fdisk -l

#6

Do i have to make it to vfat or ext3 before dd ?

#7 

Disk /dev/sdb: 4016 MB, 4016046080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 488 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb0bcd68e

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1         488     3919828+   b  W95 FAT32

Would it be
dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sdb or
dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sdb1

#8

sdb.

You do not need to partition the stick in any way, it will overwrite everything.

#9

Do i have to mount the pendrive before ?
If i run that command without mounting the pendrive , will it work?

#10

No, you do not (and should not) mount the drive beforehand - just dd it straight to the stick.

#11

I ran dd command, doesn’t work.
It’s not booting.

#12

Is your BIOS setup to boot to a USB device before booting to a hard drive?

#13

I also did that , doesn’t work,
set USB-zip/ls ro like that,

#14

After dd command:


Disk /dev/sdb: 4016 MB, 4016046080 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3830 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x651d5702

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         678      694272   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb1: 710 MB, 710934528 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 678 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x651d5702

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1p1   *           1         678      694272   83  Linux