I have an unusual situation. I have a Viewpad 1000. This tablet does not support USB Drives, only floppies. I have pulled the tablet’s hard drive and was hoping to copy the install files to a partition on the drive, then boot the machine using unetbootin and point to the “installer” partition I created and proceed with the install.
The trouble I’m running into is imaging the SUSE 11 ISO file to this partition. I thought copying the ISO to the partion would be sufficent, but then remembered that hasn’t worked for me in the past. I need to figure out how to make this “installer” partition behave like it’s the install CD so I can get SUSE installed on this tablet.
I am just about as noob as they come when it comes to linux (I was hoping to learn more after I get it installed on this tablet) so please…be gentle
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> I have an unusual situation. I have a Viewpad 1000. This tablet does not
> support USB Drives, only floppies. I have pulled the tablet’s hard drive
> and was hoping to copy the install files to a partition on the drive,
> then boot the machine using unetbootin and point to the “installer”
> partition I created and proceed with the install.
>
> The trouble I’m running into is imaging the SUSE 11 ISO file to this
> partition. I thought copying the ISO to the partion would be sufficent,
> but then remembered that hasn’t worked for me in the past. I need to
> figure out how to make this “installer” partition behave like it’s the
> install CD so I can get SUSE installed on this tablet.
>
> I am just about as noob as they come when it comes to linux (I was
> hoping to learn more after I get it installed on this tablet) so
> please…be gentle
>
Did you read http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_SUSE_LINUX_for_AMD64_on_a_System_without_DVD_Drive
It may give you a hint how to solve your problem.
