Hi.
I downloaded the live CD (KDE version) and moved it in a usb flash memory (using ImageWriter). When i restarted, the main menu was shown and i selected the first item (Start live cd…).
After a few seconds, a black screen was shown and then nothing happened.
What should i do? Please help me.
Thanks.
You can run Live CD from the CD. To “install” to USB key, it needs to be set up correctly. Do not use an image copy.
Does CD live install contain an option for making a bootable USB key?
(I have never tried with OpenSUSE, as all my bootable USB keys are make from Knoppix Distro which has the option to make a bootable USB key.)
Using suse studio imagewriter to create a bootable opensuse live usb disk as bf73 has done is correct, that’s what imagewriter is for
More info would be needed before anyone could even begin to guess why it won’t boot though
Did you check the media for example (sometimes it can just be a bad download)
Is it a 32 bit or 64 bit iso?
What hardware is in your machine, is it a laptop or pc?
Did you try pressing F4 at the boot menu and selecting Safe Settings?
Does it boot off a live cd but not off a live usb?
I treid safe settings and it worked. Thanks a lot.
Problem with GNOME 3
I did the same thing with the live cd iso of gnome 3, however when i loaded it, it showed me this error:
ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting
My graphic card is: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Is there any way for me to use gnome 3 on my laptop? If not, could this problem be solved by INSTALLING gnome 3 on opensuse?
Thanks.
I know next to nothing about gnome as I’ve rarely used it and not at all for at least 3 years, but I should think your graphics card would be ok to run gnome, gnome 3 is still pretty new though isn’t it? If it were me I’d make a system backup before upgrading to gnome 3 just in case
It’s entirely possible (probable even?) that with an installed OpenSuse rather than a live one you wouldn’t have the problem, especially if you were to install the nvidia driver
Thanks.
And what do you mean of system backup? Do i have to backup all of my HDD, or just linux files?
The process I’d use would go something like this
Install Opensuse
Run updates
Boot off a live disk
Copy the contents of your installed opensuse partition to some appropriate location
Boot back into the installed opensuse
Upgrade your gnome to version 3
Note: When copying the contents of your installed opensuse partition there are some folders that can and perhaps even should be omitted (meaning don’t copy them), here is a list of those I don’t copy, other people may have other suggestions on this
/dev
/home - Contains user profiles & data, /home I back up on a regular basis anyway using remote rsync differential backups (a whole other subject entirely)
/media
/mnt
/proc
/root
/sys
/srv - Contains webpages etc if you run a webserver, if the machine runs a webserver I would be backing this folder up regularly also
I would do the copying in one of two ways, either a command something like this for each folder to be backed up:
sudo cp -a -u -v /bin /backup-location
Or, a tar command similar to this:
sudo tar -czvspf /backup-location.tar.gz /bin /boot/ /etc /lib /lib64 /opt /sbin /tmp /usr /var (the folders you need to tar may differ slightly)
Or, if you prerred you could use Yast > System > System Backup
If the gnome 3 install fails and you aren’t able to revert back to your previous gnome for some reason you would then have the backup which you could write back using the live disk and (hopefully) revert the system back to how it was before you installed gnome 3
Bear in mind I’ve never installed gnome 3 but if I were going to I would do it along the lines of how I described above
Incidentally I didn’t know there was a live opensuse disk with gnome 3, and I don’t know how gnome looks on opensuse these days, but the image you posted looks more like fedora to me than opensuse
Thanks a lot for your pay attention.
