Cant Install opensuse 12.3 from usb stick

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Well I have tried other softwares to install opensuse 12.3 kde to usb but while booting from usb they all are giving error like failed to find mbr identifier. so I tried imagewriter to write iso to the usb (https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick) but its constantly giving error like access denied. So I deleted the usb partition to make it raw using a partition tool named EaseUS partition master but after that same error continued to occur and I have tried all the steps given on that page. I am using windows 8. Any help?

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You did run it as Administrator, right? (right-click on icon and choose “Run As Administrator”)
But Imagewriter seems to have a problem on Windows 8.

I am using windows 8. Any help?

Try this one: Tools for OSForensics - ImageUSB - Write an image to multiple USB Flash Drives
This is reported to work on Windows 8.

And it successfully and correctly writes the openSUSE 12.3 image to an USB stick. I tried that myself.

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If your PC is using UEFI boot or secure boot, you may need to go into PC setup to select the USB drive or like my PC, I can also press F12 and select the boot device without making a PC setup change. If you have a DVD burner, I can suggest you download the Live KDE DVD from here:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/iso/openSUSE-12.3-GNOME-Live-x86_64.iso

Load up the Live session, boot from the DVD and then get my Live USB burning app from here. You will need a working openSUSE session with network for it to work. Open up terminal and paste in this command:

rm ~/bin/sclu ; wget -nc http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/85914606 -O ~/bin/sclu ; chmod +x ~/bin/sclu

Then run sclu from terminal and download three more apps and it will be ready to download any image you want and burn it to a USB stick.

Thank You,

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Thank you for this. It seems to have worked perfectly for making a bootable usb drive of OpenSUSE 13.1 RC2 on Windows 8.1.

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Sir: thx to U and that tool I got ******openS **running 21 days ago!

:wink:

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On 2013-07-28 14:46, wolfi323 wrote:
> Try this one: ‘Tools for OSForensics - ImageUSB - Write an image to
> multiple USB Flash Drives’
> (http://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html)
> This is reported to work on Windows 8.

Why don’t you add a section for this in:

> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows

I added a comment on the talk page - this doesn’t need review.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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