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Ive spent the last day and a half trying to get this to work. Ive used Google to the max and nothing is working. first things first Ive followed the tutorial on the website on how to make a bootable flash stick. Win32diskimager keeps corrupting my flash drives (both 16gb Lexar and 2gb…dunno who makes it). Pen drive Linux will get me a prompt looking for a kernel at boot. and there was one more I tried and it didn’t work either. after nothing worked on my windows xp tower computer I turned to my netbook (which I need the bootable usb key for) and tried to use the terminal in Ubuntu. I did the dd=/path/to/iso/ of=/this/is/the/usb/key/which/was/sdc bs=4M (it was something like that) and it wrote the files to the stick but the PC wouldn’t boot from it. next I was told that the Ubuntu start-up disk creator worked well. so I tried using it to make a bootable flash stick for openSUSE 11.3. it read the usb key but would not load the iso. I tried all of the above with both the 4gb DVD version and the 100mb or so net install iso. can somebody please help me? Ive been having the day from hell trying to get this to work.
Hi,
With recent openSUSE, and many other GNU/Linux distros, you can use dd,
in order to do this you must first make sure you know which disk to
write to (e.g. sdb), to do this you can use ‘df -h’
the next step is simple:
dd if=/<path-to-iso>/<iso-name> of=/dev/sdb ← change sdb to the
correct disk as found using df and the <path-to-iso> and <iso-name> to
the correct ones for your system
If this doesn’t work, some other options are: unetbootin or fedora
live-usb creator
At least one of these should work; I have had success with all three.
Regards,
Barry.
thanks man, I hate fedora with a passion and have tried the dd if=/path/to/iso thing on ubuntu and it doesn’t work. I’le try unetbootin tho… I recall seeing it in the update manager on my netbook about a half an hour ago when I updated it. I’le try it now…
nope no good. UNetbootin was the other one I mentioned above that I forgot. when I get the interface I have these choices :
Defult
Linux
Rescue
Mediachk
Firmware
Memtest
and I select defult and it says invalid or corrupt kernel image. any ideas? the program also does not seem to support newer versions of suse… only shows 11.1?
Im a fool. I rebooted and selected linux and it seems to start the installer. next problem 
it freezes on Starting udev…
any idea?
PC is compaq mini 110c-1100ca
1.6ghz intel atom
Intel 945 GMA
1GB ram
160GB hard drive
128mb Vram
Broadcom 4312 wireless adapter
3 cell battery, lasts 3 hours on full charge
ok… fixed the udev problem… now its saying Make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive…??? netbook don’t has disk drive!!!
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:31:44 +0000, Barry Nichols wrote:
> With recent openSUSE, and many other GNU/Linux distros, you can use dd,
> in order to do this you must first make sure you know which disk to
> write to (e.g. sdb), to do this you can use ‘df -h’ the next step is
> simple:
> # dd if=/<path-to-iso>/<iso-name> of=/dev/sdb ← change sdb to the
> correct disk as found using df and the <path-to-iso> and <iso-name> to
> the correct ones for your system
In some cases with this method you also need to run isohybrid on the iso
image (it’s found in the syslinux package).
Worked great for me with the LiveCD and the Net install CD ISO images.
Jim
–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
nope never mind. didnt work 
booted into some mysterious linux installer distro… back at step 1… how I make a bootable flash drive?
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:36:02 +0000, jupdown wrote:
> nope never mind. didnt work booted into some mysterious linux
> installer distro… back at step 1… how I make a bootable flash
> drive?
Did you try using isohybrid on the ISO image?
If not, give that a try.
If you did, then please be specific about which ISO you’re trying to use
- also, are you absolutely certain that the system you’re trying to boot
from the flash drive supports booting from a USB device?
Jim
–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
dunno how to use isohybrid… I tried the syslinux command but it doesn’t recognize the usb drive as a fat file system when it is fat32. and yes I am 100% sure the system is capable of booting from a flash drive. I have Installed Ubuntu 9.10, windows xp, Arch Linux and Ubuntu 10.04 all successfully from a usb key. can you give me an easy tut on how to use isohybrid with Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit edition. and I believe I said somewhere above ive tried with both the net and full dvd versions. I have both isos on my Ubuntu netbook and on my windows xp tower.
I’ve tested out the method listed in this page SDB:Live USB stick - openSUSE and confirmed that the usb stick can actually boots into live KDE on a laptop.
You may want to give it a try
On 24/07/10 07:06, jupdown wrote:
>
> dunno how to use isohybrid… I tried the syslinux command but it
> doesn’t recognize the usb drive as a fat file system when it is fat32.
> and yes I am 100% sure the system is capable of booting from a flash
> drive. I have Installed Ubuntu 9.10, windows xp, Arch Linux and Ubuntu
> 10.04 all successfully from a usb key. can you give me an easy tut on
> how to use isohybrid with Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit edition. and I believe I
> said somewhere above ive tried with both the net and full dvd versions.
> I have both isos on my Ubuntu netbook and on my windows xp tower.
>
>
http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick
has a (small) section on using “syslinux” at the end of the “Linux
Instructions” to make the DVD image bootable from an USB stick before
using dd. It definitely works with the 11.3 net image, as described,
using 11.2 for download etc. The Live KDE or Gnome images are already
suitable for dd, as has been said.
–
PeeGee
Asus m/b M2V-MX SE, AMD LE1640, 2GB, openSUSE 11.2/11.0 x86_64 dual boot
- XP Home in VBox
Asus m/b M2NPV-VM, AMD 64X2 3800+, 2GB, openSUSE 10.3 x86_64/XP Home
dual boot
Acer Aspire 1350, AMD (M)XP2400+, 768MB, openSUSE 11.2/XP Home dual boot
Asus eeePC 4G (701), Celeron M353, 2GB, openSUSE 11.2 on SSD
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:06:03 +0000, jupdown wrote:
> dunno how to use isohybrid…
isohybrid --help
That’s a good place to start. IME, no additional options are necessary
beyond providing the name of the ISO file.
> I tried the syslinux command but it
> doesn’t recognize the usb drive as a fat file system when it is fat32.
That’s probably because you haven’t prepped the ISO image with isohybrid.
Jim
–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
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dd did it for me, though I really like to set the size of the total
operation too. To do this you get the size of the actual file (in bytes)
and then find a couple good factors of the same. For example if the total
size is 603979776 that happens to be divisible by 1024^2 which is 1048576
(1 MiB) and results in 576 so the command would change from (assuming
/dev/sdb is your USB drive, which is critical to be SURE about or you’ll
wish you were dead):
sudo dd if=/path/to/file.iso of=/dev/sdb
to:
sudo dd if=/path/to/file.iso of=/dev/sdb count=576 bs=1048576
Wait a couple minutes, then you’re done. A coworker tried getting the
Gnome LiveCD working using unetbootin and dd and couldn’t get it, so I
tried with the command above (with correct values in case my memory is
off) and it worked perfectly. Required? Not sure. Works for me? Yes.
Good luck.
On 07/23/2010 08:41 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:31:44 +0000, Barry Nichols wrote:
>
>> With recent openSUSE, and many other GNU/Linux distros, you can use dd,
>> in order to do this you must first make sure you know which disk to
>> write to (e.g. sdb), to do this you can use ‘df -h’ the next step is
>> simple:
>> # dd if=/<path-to-iso>/<iso-name> of=/dev/sdb ← change sdb to the
>> correct disk as found using df and the <path-to-iso> and <iso-name> to
>> the correct ones for your system
>
> In some cases with this method you also need to run isohybrid on the iso
> image (it’s found in the syslinux package).
>
> Worked great for me with the LiveCD and the Net install CD ISO images.
>
> Jim
>
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well guys, Ive given up on the 4gb dd version. I just got the live version of KDE working so I’le suffice with that thanks for all the help.
Just a remark for the later readers:
There is something going on
(and a mention of a workaround
- but I have not tested that)
on Bugzilla
in
Bug 623226 - zypp: installation from hard disk impossible
Have a lot of fun
pistazienfresser
A section from my blog on installing OpenSuse on a tc1100 tablet:
- Create an install USB
I downloaded the Network install iso at opensuse.org. To make this iso bootable from a USB key, you need to install SysLinux first (either via Yast), or:
zypper in syslinux
Unfortunalty, whatever I tried, syslinux was not recognized. Turns out, you need the very latest version of syslinux (which was not available on my 11.0), so I booted up a 11.2 computer, did the same there and all went well.
Next we will unpack the iso onto a USB key:
Check which device is your usb key:
ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb
his will print out something like the following, with sdX being the actual device (for example, sdb in my case).
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-03-05 18:22 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_Colors+_4527710EBF819BC0-0:0 → …/…/sdX
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-03-05 18:22 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_Colors+_4527710EBF819BC0-0:0-part1 → …/…/sdX1
Once you know your device name, eject it:
umount /dev/sdX1
And write the uncompressed iso to it:
dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.3-NetworkInstall-i586.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync
Worked like a charm…
I used this method - How to Install SUSE to a USB Flash Drive | USB Pen Drive Linux
As I understand the tutorial on this external website
you were
first installing a KDE live CD to a flash drive and
than making it a universal/live disk again with the script from pendrivelinux.com.
Is there any advantage in that?
Regards
pistazienfresser