I have been on a craze where I downloaded most of the major distros including Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, Slackware… etc… All of them I have been able to create a live USB to check out how they performed and how they feel. Well here I am because I cannot for the life of me get openSUSE to even extract correctly… I have downloaded the torrent twice, checked the checksum, tried both versions… i86 and x64… UnetBootin, Universal USB installer, even openSUSE’s recommended “Imagewriter”… All cannot extract this ISO, the Universal one at least runs, but it leaves the USB with 2 (two) .img files… one is named “0.img” & the other is “1.img”… clearly a computer cannot run off an .img file, and the image file named 1 (for some ungodly reason) has the files necessary to run the live usb, however even that will not work with openSUSE’s imagewriter… which completely blew my mind when it set up a 4 megabyte partition and unallocated space after that— pointless… All the other distro’s were straight forward, dont feel I need to download the whole 4.7 gigabytes to get a feel for a live cd, so is there a live ISO that wont extract as 2 pointless image files? A bit confused and fustrated to say the least seeing how many recommend SUSE as user friendly when no bootable USB installer works with it, (every USB installer worked for each of the other distros except linux mint and openSUSE) I been trying on winblows 7 premium, 8 core cpu, 4 gig USB (1 gig necessary) formatted to FAT32 filesystem… if I have to convert an img file to an ISO doesnt that defeat the purpose of an ISO on Utorrent in the first place? whats the purpose of the 2 images that extract from it? What could I personally be doing wrong if every other distro works without fail?
Don’t know I used Imagewriter on a KDE live DVD and had no problems. You can also simply dd the iso the the device. Don’t use UnetBootin , Universal USB installer since they modify the iso. For openSUSE you want a binary copy no mods.
Instructions are here https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick if you had not found them
An other point, is the machine a BIOS or UEFI based?
I’m not sure what’s going on here or where you’re getting your ISO’s from. None of them need extracting. I have used Imagewriter a few times and dd. Both work. Perhaps you didn’t read the manual on how to do this. SDB:Live USB stick - openSUSE
Thanks for the timely reply ladies or gents… I am having better luck from a directly downloaded 32 bit version. I believe the issue may be Unetbootin and Universal. Ill let you guys know if I make it to the live environment. -Patrick
I am very pleased to say that I finally got openSUSE working after giving it a rest. The issue I was having was with the imagewriter, in which was solved on another thread. Is there anyway I could delete this thread as it is not relevant or useful for anyone at this point. Again thank you guys for the prompt reply, proudly running openSUSE at the moment. I am pleased 
– Pat
We don’t delete threads, others may find them useful. Nice it’s all working now.
I’m guessing that you got caught by ImageWriter defaulting to load *.img files. Have no idea why they did that. Just force the *.iso by navigation or drag and drop
and I don’t wish to put you off of openSuse it is a seriously great multi-purpose distro… You might find that the USB thumbrive becomes unusable after you have loaded it up with imagewriter. This does not happen by any means to everybody but it certainly does for me. Solution is to dd over first section of the drive with random data, and then repartition and reformat it.