Installing from USB Drive

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#1

Hi,

I am trying to install openSUSE on a Dell GX270 (P4 2.8, 1 gig ram, 160 GB HD. I would like to have a dual boot system with both Vista an Linux. Vista is already installed, and I have 2 partitions of about 75 GB.

I have already tried burning the ISO to a CDR and installing from the CD. It brought me to the first screen where it tells me to hit ENTER to install. Then nothing happens. I waited several minutes but the install process did not start.

I thought the ISO might be corrupted, but I had the same problem installing Ubuntu. I’m thinking that there’s something wrong with my CD drive. So instead, I want to save the ISO to a 4 gig USB drive and install from there. I’m not exactly sure how to do this though. It seems that most tutorials show you how to run Linux from a USB drive (which I’ve done before with Knoppix), but they don’t tell you how to install it.

Once the ISO is downloaded, do I simply save it onto the USB drive and boot from it when I restart? Or do I have to do something with the ISO just as I would if I was burning it to a CD?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

#2

I have already tried burning the ISO to a CDR

Do you know how to do this?
Check point 4 in the first section
NEWBIES - Suse-11.0 Pre-installation – PLEASE READ - openSUSE Forums

Try the above FIRST

SuSE install from USB drive - openSUSE

#3

I’m already aware of all that. I’ve done that already.

#4

At the green boot install screen hit F3
select vesa

try again

#5

Tried it.

It hangs up when it says “Mounting CD/DVD Drive”

#6

have a look here
Installation Help - openSUSE

you may be better using the full dvd

look for errors in the boot text, it’s probably a hardware issue

try some of the boot options
use F1 for help in making choices