creating USB Live

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Hi,

I’m using Windows version of ImageWriter to create a live OpenSuse 12.1 USB on my 8GB USB stick.

Weird thing is, after everything is done, the USB isn’t readable by Windows anymore which I read is because the filesystem is iso, but still it should be readable by windows.

I’ve tried booting from the USB on 3 different laptops, only 1 works, the other 2 laptops won’t even advance to the stage of choosing which device to boot from. My the other 2 laptops do not have access to cd-rom, only usb, thus I insist on creating a live OpenSuse usb.

How do I solve this problem?

Thank you.
Henry

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What did you create the USB-Live stick from? If from a DVD-iso, you need to modify the ISO first.

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openSUSE-12.1-GNOME-LiveCD-i686

I created my USB Live stick from that iso.

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Reading the USB in windows I don’t know? Why would you want to do that anyway?
But booting it is dependant on the Machine in question supporting USB booting and being configured correctly in the BIOS.

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I just checked my USB, made from the similar iso, except KDE rather than gnome.

The “fdisk” command on linux shows a file system type of 83, so it is ext2 or ext3 or ext4.

It is entirely correct that Windows cannot read that, unless special file system drivers are installed.

The chances are that you are all set to try that install.

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This is really weird.

I burn the iso to a cd and it boots up fine.

I use the same USB flash drive and use it for Fedora 16 & Ubuntu 11.10, it boots up fine.

Is there any other way to create a usb live without using the program ImageWriter?

Thanks
Henry

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Is there any other way to create a usb live without using the program ImageWriter?

dd

For example
dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M;sync

Where ‘image.iso’ is the name of the iso and ‘sdb’ is your usb device

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also
unetbootin can do it