How make 8GB USB stick boot DVD install image?

6tr6tr · April 11, 2009, 1:33am

I downloaded the OpenSUSE DVD install image and I have an 8GB USB stick that I want to boot it off of. However, i know that there is a limit to the size of a bootable FAT16. So how do I do:

the partitioning?
Where do I put the .iso files? and how?

Thanks!

whych · April 11, 2009, 2:33am

Format it fat 32. If your bios supports usb boot you wont’t have a problem.
Search for unetbootin (if you use suse alrady, it’s in the packman repo).
Install and it should work.
My bios doesn’t support usb boot but slax with the boot dvd works fine as a portable system.

6tr6tr · April 11, 2009, 6:26am

Thanks! It dooes boot USB. So you’re saying I can do one large partition?

What commands do i do to format and partition it? I’ve only seen commands for FAT16. What about putting the iso on it?

deano_ferrari · April 11, 2009, 6:50am

You can use mkfs.vfat command like this:

mkfs.vfat -c -F 32 /dev/name_of_your_device_partition -n volume_label

Nice LiveUSB how to here:

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