Hello everyone!
As seen in the title, I’m trying to install 11.3 in a Viewsonic VNB101 notebook.
I’ve been trying a long time now, 11.3 was still in ms6, as I recall.
I tried the dd, the imagewriter, kiwi, unetbootin, Win32DiskImager and maybe something more. Lately I’m trying PXE booting, but I cant manage anything. I even gave a shoot to the new grub2 advertised feature, of booting an iso from the same machine. No luck.
Maybe its time to mention that I had already successfully installed fedora and now the kubuntu 10.04, which is running ok, but its not suse.
The weirdest thing is that I can have a bootable pendrive that looks fine. My other two desktop pc’s, boot it and they are willing to install or run live.
I’ve tried the full dvd (586) version, of course after isohybrid was ran. I also tried many of the factory isos. But the one I’m obsessed with, is openSUSE-11.3-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso. All of them where definately checksumed. What the heck is going wrong with this notebook? Bios version is InsydeH20 D0.05T45.55.03, the setup utility in rev. 3.5. Cpu is Intel Atom cpu n280
A friend of mine, installed 11.3 successfully with an external dvd-rom drive, but he lives pretty far and I cant afford buying one of my own.
So please, anyone, anything that might help would be really appreciated.
I’m a user of OpenSuse since version 6.3. It is used as my primary OS all this time, on my desktop machines. I wont give up.
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:06:02 +0000, rafaila42 wrote:
> So please, anyone, anything that might help would be really appreciated.
There’s a couple of threads that talk about using the NET ISO (prepped
with isohybrid) and copying the filesystem from the DVD to a second
partition on the flash drive. I’ve installed that way myself. I
couldn’t get it to install with the DVD ISO from a flash drive, but the
net install process worked flawlessly (once I remembered to change the
installation source from the isolinux boot menu).
Jim
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer, Jim (hey, we have the same name!)
I 'll search around to see what you mean.
Just for the record, I just tried the grub4dos technique. Sank and Drawn. 
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:06:02 +0000, rafaila42 wrote:
> Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer, Jim (hey, we have the same
> name!)
> I 'll search around to see what you mean. Just for the record, I just
> tried the grub4dos technique. Sank and Drawn.
Which ISO did you try to use with that technique?
Jim (this one, that is <g>)
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It was openSUSE-11.3-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso, isohybrided.
It came as far as I got the greenish screen with the install/memtest options. Whatever I selected, it ended up on the same problem as here. I’ ll try all the solutions provided there and see if I can get any further.
Have a nice weekend, I’ll go fishing. 
Well, good Lord loves me and just before I loose all my hair, Johnny paid a visit to his mother who lives near by and he lent me his drive, so my netbook runs 11.3 now.
A big Thank you to everyone who spent a minute to my case.