I have a HP netbook that doens’t have a cd drive, and I am running Win7 and dual booting Ubuntu. I want to switch out ubuntu for openSUSE.
I am a noob at linux, and I had trouble all last night trying to figure out how to do this. First I tried using the software & directions off of OSuse’s website, but it couldn’t locate .iso files nor would the other route work (it kept saying that it can’t run on vista, but i have 7).
Next I tried mounting from ubuntu to my external hard drive, since I don’t have a usb stick (which may sound naive or stupid) but it was the only way I could think of how to do this. Ubuntu couldn’t mount it because it said the hard drive was ‘read only’.
I really want to use OpenSUSE but I’m having a lot of trouble with the install and figuring out which is the best way to do this…any help is appreciated!
On 2012-02-20 23:16, sheappp wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have a HP netbook that doens’t have a cd drive, and I am running Win7
> and dual booting Ubuntu. I want to switch out ubuntu for openSUSE.
No CD/DVD reader, so you have to use a usb stick.
> I am a noob at linux, and I had trouble all last night trying to figure
> out how to do this. First I tried using the software & directions off of
> OSuse’s website, but it couldn’t locate .iso files nor would the other
> route work (it kept saying that it can’t run on vista, but i have 7).
I don’t know what you are trying to do. I’m guessing you try to start an
old setup.exe made for windows to install Linux - I have not read of
anybody succeeding with this method for years.
> Next I tried mounting from ubuntu to my external hard drive, since I
> don’t have a usb stick (which may sound naive or stupid) but it was the
> only way I could think of how to do this. Ubuntu couldn’t mount it
> because it said the hard drive was ‘read only’.
I don’t understand what you try here - but no cd, and no stick → means
“no way”.