Did anyone get that to work? So far, none of the milestones worked for me when I tried the live CD from a USB stick.
I’d prefer to install via USB because my laptop has no optical drive built in.
(Just as a sidenote, I installed 11.2 this way, on the same machine with the same USB stick, so the hardware isn’t a problem.)
Uwe
Hi
I used unetbootin from SLED11 to put the DVD image onto an 8GB device.
Had to point it to the device after a boot, but all installed ok. Just
had to disable the USB on reboot to complete the install.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 (i586) Kernel 2.6.33-6-desktop
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That’s cool, thanks, bookmarked. Using the real DVD instead of the limited Live CD seems even better. I’ll give it a try when I’m at home.
Did you ever try putting the Milestone Live CD on a USB device following the documentation, though?
Uwe
Hi Uwe
Oh and you need p7zip installed 
Must admit never tried a live CD on USB, I don’t know why they don’t
provide raw images, would make life so much easier.
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Actually it crashed on Milestone 3, but a friendly Windows user helped me <G>
> Must admit never tried a live CD on USB, I don’t know why they don’t
> provide raw images, would make life so much easier.
Fully agreed.
Uwe
If you have a openSUSE 11.2 it is very easy download the milestone and put this code in the terminal
dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync
or on windows use the windows disk imager here
Also more info at this place
Obviously I am copying what it says there and just a tip I tried to install Milestone 3 on my dell but I would not boot so don’t try it on something important… also I would stick to 11.2 till the final release… 11.3 is a developer’s release, not an end user’s release, make sure you know that before you install this unstable program… I am yes, ranked Puzzled Penguin but I am not puzzle about this. If you install dual-boot does not work well with openSUSE it has no “use free space” option when you install it just make sure you know what you’re doing, installing 11.3 as an end-user and if you’re doing it because of kde 4.4 there is almost no difference between kde 4.3. By the way there is a booting device in the iso so DO NOT USE UNETBOOTIN I tried it in the beginning on my computer to install openSUSE and my whole computer was left with no os…
Hi
That’s why were installing to test 
On my ASUS 1000HE netbook I
multi-boot XP Home, SLED 11, openSUSE 11.2 and openSUSE 11.3 M1~M4 I
have yet to have an issue with the milestone installs (but it could
happen, I think that’s what backups are for…?) This was the first
time I tried unetbootin and was mainly to try it out and see how an
install went.
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II dd’ the live cd .iso Uwe
Worked no problem
I’ve asked this in couple places with no answer, so forgive me jumping in…
When I try to boot LiveCD from a usb stick, it stops saying it can’t find (isolinux.bin ?) although I can find it with the file manager. MD5 was good. Same iso on a CD works.
Would like to try one of these later milestones on a usb stick.
Try formatting the USB
I suspect you may have used unetbootin at some point? It’s not the same as dd and uses isolinux as bootloader. If you google isolinux that may give you some insight
I will try to format. I did not use unetbootin. This was a new usb stick that I got specifically for trying LiveCD “portable” installs. I also followed the directions to add a partition for saving things. Google is next!
The “dd” method, when applied to a USB stick formatted using Disk Utility and containing only a single partition, works perfectly for me with both main flavours of M4 (I skipped the earlier milestones). Unetbootin does not.
It probably depends on the system you use dd worked for me unetbootin did not. Try both see how they work. I think that openSUSE should have a nice installer like fedora and ubuntu.
Fedora’s being liveusb-creator.
Having used unetbootin in the past should not make any difference. The dd command copies the data to the USB device, not to one of its partitions. Thus, all partitions and filesystems on the stick are overwitten - including anything that unetbootin has put on it - and replaced with the Milestone LiveCD partitions and filesystems. You can check that with ‘fdisk -l’. Therefore, no ‘formatting’ is necessary once the dd command has been run.
I tried unetbootin but still failed. Went back to dd method and once again get error “isolinux.bin corrupt or not found” and boot stops. However, the iso boots if burned to CD.
Hi
Did you download the latest unetbootin? I used it for the DVD to an
8GB USB external SSD, if it’s a live version dd should work fine?
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up 9 days 20:16, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.14, 0.10
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I did load the latest unetbootin. Since I seem to be the only one that has this problem, even though it is on multiple machines, I am going to assume there is something wrong with the stick. I thought I formatted wrong or copied to the wrong folder or partition or something. If I find a spare usb stick laying around, maybe I’ll try over again.