Install from Win10 using the opensuse_install.exe to a partition on a hard drive connected to a pci card?
Three hdd’s, 1 sata with Win10, 1 sata with Win7, third is a pata storage hdd that is connected to the mobo via a pci card.
Can I install to the 3rd pata hdd from the Win10 hdd using the opensuse_install.exe that shows up when I extract the iso?
I have never tried it. But I think it just sets your system up to boot from the DVD on next boot.
Just be certain that the install points to the right drives/partitions. It should work
Thanks. Will give it a try and hope I doesn’t fubar my Windows drive(s).
The only reason I asked is I can’t seem to get a ‘live’ USB stick to work. It just ends up with GRUB on it, and doesn’t launch anything. Or the live app fails to complete fro some reason. The checksum’s are OK as far as I can tell.
Maybe I was trying to do something that Leap 42.3 won’t do as a live USB. OR just making it more difficult than it is.
I tried with both iso’s the large DVD version, and the smaller net version.
I am not new to SuSe linux, but it has been a long time since I have tried to get it back on my desktop machine.
Did you create the live USB correct? You must copy the ISO on the device, not on a partition (that is one thing people often do wrong).
In other words, when you tell here what you did to create that installation on the USB device people could make comments on that.
Use rufus to create an bootable USB. With dd from rufus (create a bootable disk using … choose dd).
You can also look here, including more detailed instructions for using rufus.
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows
Also, note that if we know exactly what happens when you boot it, where it is at in the process when it fails, we will be better able to help you.
There are a few different places in the install process where a fail might be possible due to something unusual in your setup, and each of those has different possible solutions.
Good luck.
Thanks for all of the responses!
I will try to explain what I did to get a ‘bootable’ USB stick. The iso file was in a storage area on an HDD and NOT on the USB stick.
I tried with imageusb, and that is the one that failed every time. I tried with Etcher, unetbootin, and yumi. All these just left me a grup type boot manager. I don’t remember if I tried with rufus. Got tired not seeing a black screen with text on it, but nothing that would allow me to boot into a ‘live opensuse’.
Prior to trying opensuse, I got live boots using yumi of mint and chaletos that let me select and use either one from a boot menu.
I was putting opensuse on another USB stick because the other one with mint and chaletos was out of room.
**SO>> onward, ** This evening I tried installing opensuse on that third HDD that is connected via a PCI card, and I get a multi-boot menu, but it just shows my Windows versions and the opensuse installer. after the long time of doing the install, I rebooted, got the menu, selected the opensuse item, and it just started the whole install thing all over again. It did do some partitioning of that drive. Not aware it was suppose to do that.
So, I have freed up one of the sata HDD’s, and am ready to format it and hopefully get opensuse on it as a multi boot with my Windows(not ready to toss them yet).
But realistically, I would like to take a look at it before I commit to installing on an HDD.
Okay, we are getting a bit farther, here.
The openSUSE 42.3 installer is just that, an installer.
It is not a Live disk, there is no official live DVD/USB for the 42.x series.
(There is a branch-off, but no need for you to go that route).
There is a Live CD Version of the latest Tumbleweed, you will find it here:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_installation
There is a Live CD Version of the upcoming Newest Version, Leap 15.0 Beta. It is in Beta stage, but I have found it to be quite stable, have been using it on my main machine for a couple months now without any issues, an older PC.
You may want to check that out:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/live/
In the past running the installer from Windows has not worked. One OS interferes with the other. Install from a DVD or a USB. IN either case you must do a binary copy of the ISO to the device ( NOT a partition on the device). Most DVD burning software has a ISO image burn option. USB you need to use a binary copy program like Rufus using the DD option or something like https://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html. If copying in a Linux environment us dd or just cp to copy iso to the device
Was wondering what and where you were originally talking about “opensuse_install.exe”
Are you talking about WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)?
If you were, I find it hard to think how WSL can be leveraged into installing openSUSE or has some advantage over some other way… WSL has some definite limitations although might be very useful for some scenarios (like running a true Python environment which is otherwise an abomination on Windows).
As for everything else in this thread,
Although I haven’t tried to install openSUSE from Within Windows to a physical partition in many years,
I’d imagine you should only have to mount the ISO image (Easy to do in Win8/10, and there are many utilities that can do it graphically), then just run.
Burning the image to an actual USB stick might be necessary, but I doubt it.
TSU
@gogalthorp> imageUSB failed to complete every time I ran it. So I gave up on it. May give rufus another try. At least I know it will get me to the install.
@TSU> There is a file in the iso labeled ‘opensuse_installer.exe’. That is the one I referred to. No I don’t want the Windows store version. That is just a terminal to run the WSL tools. Not what I want. The mount thing sounds good(and familiar) from my old UNIX days. Worth investigating for sure.
@Fraser_Bell> I will look closer at the links and information you have provided. I would try the 15.0 beta, but I am looking for something that will let my wife do her thing without having to be an admin or calling on me every time she sees something she thinks is a problem. It is bad enough that I am going to have to re-learn since my ‘old’ Suse and UNIX days.
I honestly thought I could get a USB stick that let me actually work with opensuse(like I have on a USB stick with mint and chaletos) with out having to install. In other words, I want to ‘try it on’ first. Then if I like it install it. I liked Suse way back when. It was the best around at that time, and probably still is.
@Fraser_Bell> I will look closer at the links and information you have provided. I would try the 15.0 beta, but I am looking for something that will let my wife do her thing without having to be an admin or calling on me every time she sees something she thinks is a problem. It is bad enough that I am going to have to re-learn since my ‘old’ Suse and UNIX days.
Give it, or TW, a shot. I think you will be impressed.
15.0 official release date is expected in about a month.
Lot to think about and look into. Thanks to all that responded.
I am trying to get the ‘stars’ all hit, but for some reason, I will have to wait until tomorrow to finish that!
Interesting,
I never noticed that.
I wonder how long it’s existed.
TSU
I sure don’t know how long it has been there being the new again noobie that I am.
I just right clicked on the iso in windows, and did a 7-zip ‘open archive’, and there it was(is).
i still haven’t got a ‘working live’ USB for any version of opensuse that has that ability. Not even geckolinux.
getting very frustrated.
If I remember correctly, it is there already for a long time. It’s usage was not encouraged by the members here, presumably because nobody got it working (after all it has to run under some Windows and who knows about the peculiarities there?). A “normal” installation was preferred and is the one people here can help you with because that is what they do.