Installing On Netbook Via USB

[dave2889]

I recently bought an Acer Aspire One D250 which came with Windows 7 Starter, which I absolutely hate, so I downloaded the 32-bit ISO of openSUSE KDE Live to try to install on it via USB, but it keeps coming up with something like cannot find kernel:gfx. That may not be the exact wording but it’s something to that effect. I used unetbootin on my desktop openSUSE install. I really want to wipe Windows (and Android) off this netbook, so I can actually enjoy using it. Any help appreciated. I’ve never had success with liveUSB, my desktop and previous laptop never booted, although they were both USB boot capable.

[Edward_Iii]

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } Hello dave2889,

@dave2889

I recently bought an Acer Aspire One D250 which came with Windows 7 Starter, which I absolutely hate, so I downloaded the 32-bit ISO of openSUSE KDE Live to try to install on it via USB, but it keeps coming up with something like cannot find kernel:gfx. That may not be the exact wording but it’s something to that effect. I used unetbootin on my desktop openSUSE install. I really want to wipe Windows (and Android) off this netbook, so I can actually enjoy using it. Any help appreciated. I’ve never had success with liveUSB, my desktop and previous laptop never booted, although they were both USB boot capable.

I’ve recently installed openSUSE 11.3 on a Netbook with an liveUSB installer: here
Never used unetbootin, so maybe you need to install it the same way I’ve done.

First thing to do is to verify your download.
You can do this with this md5: here (this is the 11.3 KDE Live md5)

After that I wrote the iso to the USB stick with this command:

dd if=/<path>/<to>/openSUSE-11.3-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdX

Replace /dev/sdX with the device name of your USB stick.

Then restart your computer with the USB stick.
If everything went alright you can install openSUSE 11.3
After the installation reboot.
If Grub doesn’t show I recommend you read this HowTo:Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic

I hope this information is useful!

Best of luck!

[dave2889]

Well my problem turns out to be a corrupt ISO. The only time I forgot to check the md5 and it turns out corrupted I’m downloading it again. Perhaps unetbootin will work after all.

[dave2889]

OK, I download new ISO, md5 checks out OK, boots, but when I go to boot, it just freezes on the boot screen, with the USB drive flashing, I selected the check install media option from boot menu and it says md5sum wrong. I’ve done this twice, now I can’t format my USB drive now come up with this message: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5339497/snapshot3.png

[gogalthorp]

The recommended method is to use dd command not unetbootin. There is a Windows version of dd also if you are creating from a Windows OS