Have OpenSuse changed its HowTo for making a bootable install USB drive?
With OpenSuse 12.1 I used isohybrid on the iso file first and then dd_rescue to create the USB drive from the DVD iso.
The HowTo has now changed dd_rescue to plain dd. Why is that?
When I try to run ***dd if=openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdj ***the entire system halts. The process itself (dd) does not seem to use much CPU, but the load is a constant 100% and does not seem to finish(I can’t use the system in the mean time). After waiting half an hour I disconnected the USB drive. I then plugged it back in and it seemed to contain the DVD ISO data, but I am unsure if it is 100% OK.
Anyone remembers how the dd_rescue was used to create the USB install drive?
I use (after running “isohybrid”):
dd_rescue openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso /dev/sdf
It works fine.
“dd” does the same thing as “dd_rescue”, but without the comprehensive error checking.
I think your problem is buffering. By default, “dd” uses a blocksize of 512 bytes, so that requires many write operation.
Maybe you should have added “bs=1048576” to the command line (or, I think “bs=1M” would also work), so that you are tranferring larger blocks. Continue to use dd_rescue if it is available.
You say you are not 100% sure after using “dd”. And that’s what I like about “dd_rescue” - it provides a final summary statistics.
Excellent… Thanx.
I just let dd run for over an hour now while I was away. When I came back it had finished. So I guess success either way…
On 09/07/2012 12:16 PM, DJViking wrote:
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> Excellent… Thanx.
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> I just let dd run for over an hour now while I was away. When I came
> back it had finished. So I guess success either way…
Does imagewriter not do what you want? It works from the iso as downloaded, and
runs quickly.