I have problem installing SUSE Tumbleweed.
I downloaded openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20150630-Media.iso from SUSE website and, using Rufus, put it on a USB.
Installation starts but when it comes to “System probing”, to be precise, when it has to check “Search for system files” it reports
an error.
When I check log entry (at Alt+F2) it reports several errors - “eeor 37: Couldn’t open file /var/adm/mount/part.info” and similar.
In second attempt I extracted ISO to “C:\instalacija”, just to be sure that error is not due to bad USB disk. But error repeats.
Don’t use Rufus. AFAIK that modifies the image to make it bootable, which breaks the openSUSE installation DVD that is already bootable (from USB).
You have to write it to the USB stick unaltered.
DO NOT use Rufus or any other Linux boot helper the iso is ready to boot from DVD/USB. All you need to do is do an unaltered binary copy to the USB device. Note not partition on device, the device.
I most recently installed Tumbleweed using this method and having to then set the boot partition to have the boot flag from a Live USB and Gparted, but you may not have this issue (hopefully). This is an issue more with the installing than the image on the USB though.
Other than writing the image directly to a DVD/USB, the only bootloader type program that’s worked for me is YUMI. It’s always worked flawlessly. openSUSE, sadly, does not support directly booting from the ISO file, like most every major distro.
Note: You can use Rufus, but you have to tell it to use dd mode by using the Alt-I “cheat mode”.
The details of the issue with openSuse are provided here. There also are plans to alert users about ISOHybrids in a future version of Rufus. Unfortunately, while enforcing dd mode for ISOHybrid certainly makes life easier for maintainers, it can also be troublesome for users who want to add a wifi firmware or other files (or may end up confused as to why they can no longer “see” the bulk of their USB from Windows). It would be nice if openSuse could take a cue from what Debian and other distros do, and allow both FAT32 and ISO9660 detection, to help with these kind of scenarios…
Unfortunately YUMI seemed to only work for me on 13.1. For 13.2 DVD/Net and Tumbleweed YUMI didn’t work. I ended up using Image Writer. Per the instructions from the openSUSE documentation.