Downloaded openSUSE-11.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
Burned on a DVD and used to make an install op a Dell laptop
Everything went okay.
Now I like to make a install on a ASUS UL20A laptop without an optical drive
Placed the iso on a USB stick with dd command
The stick can be read by openSUSE 11.2 machine
NOT by WIN 7 machine
I tried to make the USB stick with Win32DiskImager.exe
It gave the same result as above.
Any tip or explanation of the above is appreciated
Teunis
this should be helpful:
http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD#Creating_a_bootable_USB_Stick_from_Linux
ask again if not helpful…
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Thank You. I followed this set of instructions
Creating a bootable USB stick under Windows
And now my laptop booted on the USB stick
During the installation I am asked for the source medium
I choose HD
Unfortunately I don’t see the dsik partition for my USB stick
I only see the installed HD and 3 partitions on it all sda’s
My USB drive should be /dev/sdb
I can’t make a choice for it.
Any suggestion is really appreciated
Teunis
Hi
Add the option at the installation grub menu
insmod=usb_storage
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Can you give me a hint how to do that
Is the GRUB menu on the bootable USB stick
Thanks
Hi
Yes, the very first screen where you get to select boot from hard disk,
installation etc. If you scroll down to the installation option,
anything you type will be in the ‘Boot options’ at the bottom of the
screen;
http://thumbnails26.imagebam.com/8012/7a7bf880114621.gif](ImageBam)
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I tried
insmod=usb_storage
That did not work
Shall I copy the content of the DVD in a folder in the
root of one of my HD partitions?
Hi
If it can see the drives, I would do that. Else you would need to mount
the usb device manually from one of the virtual terminal (alt+ctrl+Fn
key combination).
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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No that did not work
I can get a virtual termnal with Ctrl-Alt-F2
Sorry for asking: How can I mount the USB stick?
Can you give me the command.
I thought the USB stick is already mounted as “sdb”
Hi
If you run the command;
fdisk -l
do you see the device? If so;
mkdir /tmp/sdb
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/sdb
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Hi
Or which ever partition you have the dvd data on eg sdb2 sdb3 etc
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The fdisk is not recognized as a command
In dev/disk/by-id I can see my USB stick
Hi
It should be? At what point in the install are you running the command
to switch to the virtual console?
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On my working SUSE1.2 machine fdisk only works if I am loged-in as root. The command is not on the RAM disk in /bin or /lbin
I go to a console with Al-Ctrl-F9 just before the “Choose the source medium” question is asked
Hi
I would look at using the NET install then use that to select the local
hard drive directory with a copy of the DVD.
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Unfortunately I could not mount the USB stick
So when it asked for the ‘resource medium’ I had to choose NFS
On the network I had a machine n which I could share /media/CDROM
After that the installation was succesfully.
Thanks for your advices