In May I’d like to install openSuse Leap 15.2 and my notebook (Thinkpad T 450s) has no cd drive. So I need to put an installation medium on an USB stick.
Today I updated the BIOS of the said notebook and it was a hassle to get an USB stick with a working image on it.
Imagewriter refused to write the image “jbdujxy.iso” on the USB stick for unknown reasons.
There is no official genisoimage (including geteltorito) package on software.opensuse.org
So how am I supposed to produce an USB stick for a new installation or a BIOS update these days?
On the same page where you download your ISO for the particular version of openSUSE, scroll down the page a bit and you you’ll see a link to a page describing the recommended procedure
For example,
Since you’re asking about LEAP, the following is the page (from software.opensuse.org) for LEAP
Well, yes and no. If imagewriter fails, as it has happened with the *.iso file for the BIOS update, we run out of alternatives. Fortunately there was a home: repo containing the genisoimage software.
I’ll suggest on the factory mailinglist to include genisoimage.
Are you saying you don’t want to use any of these packages?
If you look up genisoimage, it’s created only for Debian. It’s available only in openSUSE because someone is putting in some extra work.
That is nonsense. Why “format” it? That will be overwritten on copying the ISO!
Just
dd if=filename.osi of=/dev/sdx
Some even use cp instead of dd (as noted above), so easy is it.
That imagewriter is IMHO only for non-Linux users.
Note: the fact that you had problems in making a bootable USB memory device from a random chosen ISO file is no reason to condemn the tool you used. We have no details on how you used the tool, what the ISO was, etc. So we have no information on what went ewronmg, nor can we help you with this without more details. The conclusion that the tool is useless is thus yours.
So from my understanding you seem to contradict to the information of those websites. …Which doesn’t mean that you are wrong, but however, for a user like me things are more difficult than necessary.
It depends on the ISO file? Why and how should a USER (!) start investigating whether ISO files from Lenovo for a BIOS update were appropriate for an openSuse tool? >:(
For HP systems, just copy to the efi partition BIOS update location and reboot (or can do it from a USB device)… for this intel board just copy the bin file to a fat device and reboot and press F10 to select updating BIOS…
Yes, but the goal is not to take a perl script from anywhere in the internet to install a BIOS update. I had even some reservation to use the script from an openSuse home repo.
That’s what I’m talking about: There should be an official package of anything in Leap 15.2 to update a BIOS and produce an USB stick as well for installing the OS.
However, if I understand things right, the whole thing isn’t needed, I just copy the ISO file to the USB stick?! See, people get somewhat angry if they brick their gadgets…
Hi
Well there is fwupdmgr and fwupd, which AFAIK is planned to do BIOS updates, at present just firmware… But at the end of the day it’s really a manufacturer driven thing…