Note: I know there’s another thread with this subject but that appears to have become a discussion on installing SuSE on a USB stick, I am trying to use a stick to install SuSE on a brand new server, not on the USB stick itself.
I’ve just built a new server class machine on which I plan to install SuSE (13.1 when it comes out tomorrow).
To prepare and check things I tried to follow the install procedure for the current release as given on the website. I’ve downloaded the ISO and ImageWriter.exe, however when ImageWriter is run, it does not see the USB stick - the drop-down selector (next to the “Copy” button) is blank.
I’ve tried this on two different systems, one running Windows XP and one running Windows 7 - the result is exactly the same each time. There’s no problem with the ISO, the problem is that ImageWriter is not seeing the USB stick even though Windows can see it, read it, and write to it. I’m running Windows as an administrator user so the problem isn’t permissions.
The USB stick is a brand new Kingston 32GB and works perfectly for general use.
After a reccomendation on ServerFault.com I tried using Unetbootin to copy the ISO to the stick, while that resulted in a bootable stick it doesn’t appear that the ISO works with it as the only option to come up is “Default” and that then refuses to boot, just keeps going round and round the “booting in 10 seconds” thing, and resetting the timer every 10 seconds.
Even after making the stick bootable using Unetbootin, ImageWriter still refuses to put anything in its drop-down box.
Are there any instructions anywhere for doing manually (say from the Windows command prompt, or using a general purpose tool like Unetbootin or Rufus) whatever it is that ImageWriter is supposed to be doing?
I can confirm, tried with 7 pro and 8 - ImageWriter for windows doesn’t see USB drive. While on the same win7 machine, I could share USB drive with virtual-boxed OpenSuse and write to it with ImageWriter. But regrettable I couldn’t install anyway, but it is in other thread…
> After a reccomendation on ServerFault.com I tried using Unetbootin to
> copy the ISO to the stick, while that resulted in a bootable stick it
That will not work.
I documented that it would not work, but the paragraph has been removed
from the instructions:
«Note: do not try to apply procedures found in internet for other
distributions “to convert the images into bootable sticks”. Doing that
will break the images. The openSUSE images are already prepared for
being used directly on usb sticks, no further steps are needed.»
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Now waiting until 13.1 is available, and looking forward to installing it.
Is there any chance references to using ImageUSB as an alternative to ImageWriter could be added to the download instructions for creating a USB stick under Windows?
On 2013-11-18 19:06, GinFuyou wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2598547 Wrote:
>>
>> That will not work.
>>
>> I documented that it would not work, but the paragraph has been removed
>> from the instructions:
>>
>> «Note: do not try to apply procedures found in internet for other
>> distributions “to convert the images into bootable sticks”. Doing that
>> will break the images. The openSUSE images are already prepared for
>> being used directly on usb sticks, no further steps are needed.»
>>
>
> That is in the instructions but not on first page of USB stick
> installation and you must go ‘SDB:Create a Live USB stick using Windows
> - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows) to
> see this. Hope for fix for Windows ImageWriter.
Oh, right…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
No progress? It seems to me that in win7 the ImageWriter does not see the USB stick.
(All operations before worked fine and the partition on the USBstick were removed, the USB is
not mounted / is not allocated). What can be done?
Can you recommend a special partition manager (where to download?) and its usage to prepare the USB stick?
I need to do it via USB because there is no dvd on my target Akoya E1228 .
Thank you so much; Tools for OSForensics - ImageUSB - Write an image to multiple USB Flash Drives
really worked (the usb stick used can be in an usual FAT32 primary partion configuration, it will be repartioned by the tool).
May be it would make sense to edit the old recommendation to use ImageWriter since
this seems not so easy to use on some Windows systems.
A hint for usb based opensuse installation on the netbook Akoya E1210 mit BIOS 2007 American Megatrend:
start the BIOS Setup (key F3); ==> Advanced: ==> USB configration; ==> [Legacy USB support enabled];
==> Mass Storage Devices Generic-Multi-Card [Auto]; ==> Boot; ==> Boot optio #1 [USB Floppy].
On 2013-12-26 14:16, greinig wrote:
>
> Thank you so much;
> ‘Tools for OSForensics - ImageUSB - Write an image to
> multiple USB Flash Drives’
> (http://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html)
> really worked (the usb stick used can be in an usual FAT32 primary
> configuration, it will be repartioned by the tool).
> May be it would make sense to edit the old recommendation to use
> ImageWriter since
> this seems not so easy to use on some Windows systems.
Please make a comment on the comment section of the wiki. Or even better, make an entry in Bugzilla,
telling that imagewriter fails, and please modify the documentation or correct the program.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))
