I am still a Linux novice, so don’t laugh at my questions here. I am assuming that since the file size for downloading 12.2 will be greater than 4GB, my FAT32 flash drive which has a Microsoft FAT32 format will fail when I attempt to burn the 12.2 image. Can someone take me through the YaST steps to get this in a format where I can use it for this purpose. Thanks much. I have attempted to reformat it but I am doing something wrong.
Hi
Use the LiveCD image, you can install from there as well… You need
to use ImageWriter to create the bootable image.
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malcolmlewis wrote:
> use ImageWriter to create the bootable image.
+1
And the format of FAT is fine, because it doesn’t burn a direct copy of the single image file
Using linux, I just “burn” the image with dd_rescue (available in opensuse repos) and I use an 8G flash drive. Before the “burn” of the DVD image, I run “isohybrid” on the iso file. Note that “isohybrid” is part of the syslinux package available in the opensuse repos.
On my system, the USB drive shows up as “/dev/sdf” so I use
# isohybrid filename.iso
# dd_rescue filename.iso /dev/sdf
and that works rather nicely.
Actually, I run “isohybrid” as a non-root user. But the dd_rescue needs to be run by root, since ordinary users do not have access to a device special file such as “/dev/sdf”.
I never worried about the FAT32 bit, because that will be completely overwritten when the iso file is copied to the USB.
The ImageWriter software that other suggest should also be fine.
OK. I once used the Imagewriter software for this and received an error. That error referred back to something about FAT32 was limited to 4GB. But I did it this time with no problem. Don’t know what is going on with the error message that I got before, but it must have been a fluke. Thanks for the responses. Much appreciated.
On 2012-08-31 03:56, jdcart15 wrote:
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> OK. I once used the Imagewriter software for this and received an
> error. That error referred back to something about FAT32 was limited to
> 4GB. But I did it this time with no problem. Don’t know what is going
> on with the error message that I got before, but it must have been a
> fluke. Thanks for the responses. Much appreciated.
The error was probably because you did not “burn” the image, but try to copy the image file to your
flash drive. If you follow the procedure correctly the flash drive is effectively reformatted.
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