SUSE installation asking for "enter the source directory"

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hello ALL

I’m a totally nOOb when it comes to Linux. I have tried SUSE about 10 years ago, but i don’t remember much. I wan’t to try out som Steam Games just for fun :smiley:

I have created a bootable USB stick which is booting up correctly. After i select the installation i select the hard disk which is my usb stick and it asks me for “Enter the source directory” and i type “/” or “/boot” but i get a message saying “No repository found”. The “/boot” is where the ISO file is. My SUSE 13.2 ISO is in the \boot folder so i don’t understand what i’m doing wrong?

On my 16GB USB stick i have these files and folders. In the USB stick root folder there is a grldr file which i think was created from rmprepUSB, and also in the root folder is the menu.lst

The menu.lst looks like this inside

timeout 10
title openSUSE-13.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
uuid () > nul
set UUID=%?% set ISO=openSUSE-13.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
kernel /boot/linux isofrom=/dev/disk/by-uuid/%UUID%:/boot/%ISO% isofrom_device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/%UUID% isofrom_system=/boot/%ISO% loader=syslinux splash=silent quiet
initrd /boot/initrd

Moving on i have a boot folder which inside is initrd file and linux file and the iso file.

Can anyone help me pleace? :slight_smile:

PS: sorry for my bad English!!!

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Confused you want to install to the USB stick you are installing from??

How did you create the stick did you follow instructions here

https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick

or did you use some random instructions from the web??

Are you following installation instructions here

http://opensuse-guide.org/installation.php

Also there are many flavours of the installer which did you use??

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Yes i follow those exact instructions, and i followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVGXWV1zcq4 which is on the same page.

No i do not wan’t to install to the USB stick. I have just tried selecting sba3 50GB SSD disk partition i made, but with the same result.

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Did you check the ISO check sum before copying it to the USB??

I don’t believe I have ever seen that question on an install so not sure where or why it is showing can you tell us exactly at which point you get that. It certainly is not normal

Hmm looking at the video it seem it is saying install from the live desktop, not sure what they are doing but it is not the normal way. There should be an install option at the boot screen menu. try that.

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If you follow the instructions on the linked page, you should be able to do what you wanted to do.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows#Using_ImageUSB

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Yes the MD5 checksum is correct. I will start from scratch

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Got i working after i used imageUSB

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I might have a similar or related issue. I have a grub2 based multi-ISO USB thumbdrive. openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Rescue-CD-x86_64-Snapshot20151221-Media.iso is bootable using this menuentry:


menuentry '[loopback]openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Rescue-CD-x86_64-Snapshot20151221-Media' {
    set isofile='/live/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Rescue-CD-x86_64-Snapshot20151221-Media.iso'
    loopback loop $isofile
    set loader=(loop)/boot/x86_64/loader
    # see https://github.com/cyberorg/live-fat-stick/blob/master/live-grub-stick#L240
    linux $loader/linux isofrom=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$stickuuid:$isofile isofrom_device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$stickuuid isofrom_system=$isofile loader=syslinux splash=silent quiet showopts
    initrd $loader/initrd
}

where the variable “stickuuid” is set to the UUID of the vfat partition on my USB thumbdrive.

but booting e.g. openSUSE13.2 or SLE12 is not working as the repository is not found by the installer. The menuentries I use:


menuentry '[loopback]SLE-12-Server-MINI-ISO-x86_64-GM-DVD' {
    set isofile='/live/SLE-12-Server-MINI-ISO-x86_64-GM-DVD.iso'
    loopback loop $isofile
    set loader=(loop)/boot/x86_64/loader
    linux $loader/linux isofrom_device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$stickuuid isofrom_system=$isofile splash=silent showopts
    initrd $loader/initrd
}

menuentry '[loopback]openSUSE-13.2-NET-x86_64' {
    set isofile='/live/openSUSE-13.2-NET-x86_64.iso'
    loopback loop $isofile
    set loader=(loop)/boot/x86_64/loader
    linux $loader/linux isofrom=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$stickuuid:$isofile isofrom_device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$stickuuid isofrom_system=$isofile loader=syslinux
    initrd $loader/initrd
}

So I am wondering what’s wrong. Do you have any ideas?