Can't Prepare DVD .iso for LiveUSB on Windows 7

Hey guys, I’m trying to create a LiveUSB stick using an openSUSE 12.1 i586 DVD .iso, but something’s not working right. I’ve followed the instructions here (http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick) to the letter, but for some reason the .iso simply isn’t being converted to .raw so I can enter it into the Image Writer. The only error I’m getting in cmd is “Warning: more than 1024 cylinders (4224). Not all BIOSes will be able to boot this device.” This isn’t the first time I’ve tried to do this either, I tried about a year ago prior to formatting and it failed that time too. I’m running Windows 7 Professional x64, let me know if you need any more info.

What I did step-by-step:

  1. Downloaded the DVD .iso
  2. Extracted isohybrid.pl from syslinux and put it in the same directory as my .iso
  3. Installed strawberry perl
  4. Accessed cmd as admin, then cd to the directory with my .iso and the isohybrid.pl
  5. Ran > C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe isohybrid.pl openSUSE-12.1-DVD-i586.iso
  6. Tried to open the .raw in SUSE Studio Image Writer; that obviously did not work out because the .iso was still a .iso

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:46:03 +0000, oddsubrosian wrote:

> but for some reason the .iso simply isn’t being converted to .raw

Try just renaming it, or in the file selection box, select “.” instead
of “*.iso”.

Jim


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