I tried most of the methods using a graphical interface to create a live USB through a 64-bit dvd image to install opensuse 11.2 including unetbootin, Win32DiskImager, Mandriva’s Seed… Everything failed, so I’m left with the option to do it through the command prompt. There is a dd tool for Windows, and I got the command line instructions in the Live USB page. One thing I don’t understand is that how is insert my path of the iso image for this command in Windows: # dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync; Should I replace the bit # dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso, with like something like # dd if= C:\Downloads\Opensuse11.2x-64.iso? I would be very grateful if anyone could help me to solve this problem, thanks.
dd is a Linux command
Do you have a linux OS at all?
Hi,
If you are using Windows, I would suggest Unetbootin: I have had success
creating live USBs with this application on many occasions.
Maybe you should try using the Live-CD iso.
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Regards,
Barry Nichols
Thanks for you guys suggestions. I tried unetbootin, but it just didn’t work in Windows 7 because I tired it run it by adminstrator in Windows for the programme, somehow it booted up sucessfully with the live USB key, but I couldn’t install opensuse because if I used the default option, it says the kernel is corrupted. I tried the linux option, and the resporitories were not found ton install opensuse. By the way, I don’t have a linux system in my Computer because this computer is very new, it’s only a few months old. So I need to do a fresh linux installation. I’m really puzzled how to install opensuse from a live USB key.
dwongelec wrote:
>
> I tried most of the methods using a graphical interface to create a live
> USB through a 64-bit dvd image to install opensuse 11.2 including
> unetbootin, Win32DiskImager, Mandriva’s Seed… Everything failed, so
> I’m left with the option to do it through the command prompt. There is a
> dd tool for Windows, and I got the command line instructions in the
> ‘Live USB page’ (http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick). One thing I
> don’t understand is that how is insert my path of the iso image for this
> command in Windows: # dd
> if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdX
> bs=4M;sync; Should I replace the bit # dd
> if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso, with like something
> like # dd if= C:\Downloads\Opensuse11.2x-64.iso? I would be very
> grateful if anyone could help me to solve this problem, thanks.
>
>
I never used the windows version of dd so you need to check the following
link yourself.
I found this description it contains some examples
http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
Hope this helps.
Hi,
Fedora live-USB creator is available for Windows, you could try that.
I’ve never used it from Linux or Windows, so I don’t know how reliable
it is; however I have used the Fedora CLI tools to create Live-USBs,
which worked great. I assume this is just a GUI for the same tools, if
so, it should work without any problems.
Fedora Live-USB creator is available here:
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
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Regards,
Barry Nichols
Thanks the suggestions. I tried the Fedora live usb creator to create live USB and it failed with these messages: LiveUSB creation failed!
extract_iso must be run before install_bootloader
I really can’t imagine it would be so troublesome to make a live USB from opensuse’s dvd iso image.
dwongelec wrote:
>
> Thanks the suggestions. I tried the Fedora live usb creator to create
> live USB and it failed with these messages: LiveUSB creation failed!
> extract_iso must be run before install_bootloader
> I really can’t imagine it would be so troublesome to make a live USB
> from opensuse’s dvd iso image.
>
>
What exactly failed when you were using Win32DiskImager?
I suggested to use it in another thread to a user who only had windows as
operating system and it worked for him.
So maybe we can find the difference.
Btw I also found by testing that due to some strange reason unetbootin will
not work with the os 11.2 live images.
The easiest way is of course with dd from an existing linux system (tried it
several times and it worked always so it is not really difficult to get an
opensuse live stick within 5 minutes) but you do not have one available.
I used win32diskimager and the usb stick would become unrecognisable and it failed to boot up as well. I need to reformat the disk after I booted into Windows because I won’t be able to see the contents inside the usb stick.
Are we to assume you ONLY have USB as install option, ie; No CD/DVD
Have you tried unetbootin and one of the default .iso options it lists, rather than the one you have?
Thanks. But I could see unetbootin only supports up to opensuse 11.1 which is not what I wanted to install. I would like to install opensuse 11.2.
You still didn’t answer the above.
Thing is though, you could install 11.1 and use zypper to ‘dup’ to 11.2.
I think we would assume it for now with no cd/dvd.