opensuse-12.1-GNOME-LiveCD-i686.iso, installation-usb and netbook

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I have created an installation medium 4GB usb by the CLI


#ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*
#mkdosfs -I /dev/sdb
#dd if=openSUSE-12.1-GNOME-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

I checked this medium on my 32-bit Dell-Vostro-1014 laptop and everything went fine.
But when I tried to check the medium on my 32-bit Zenith(India)-ZBook-OEM netbook the machie hung and refused to proceed further beyond the starting screen ‘Zenith-Always ON’ message.
I may mention that I have installed openSUSE-11.4 on this machine from a 2GB installation-usb created in an identical manner. As a matter of fact I am posting this thread from that platform. Also an installation-usb for
debian-squeeze has also worked.
Now I am waiting for advice and direction.
Thanks.
P.Rudra.

#2

What you are doing should work on most computers.

The difficulty with older computers, is that they don’t all reliably support boot from USB.

#3

But for a Netbook usb is the only way unless one goes for netinstall. And I wanted to use the live version of 12.1 so that I don’t mess with the perfectly working 11.4 version.