Trying to install from live usb, boots buut then goes black

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#1

I downloaded the live cd iso and installed it on usb using this command (while it was unmounted):

dd if=openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M

I then restarted and it loads into a main openSUSE screen, I choose the “OpenSUSE 11.2” and it starts loading. Then it shows the progress abr under the gecko guy and it starts to load, that moves to a few diff. places on the screen and then it goes black. Any ideas?

#2

ATI? NVidia? Intel?

Try booting in VESA mode (It’s under one of them sneaky function keys)

#3

Here’s my display info (as reported in Fedora KDE):

Vendor: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Model: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GME GEM 20090114 x86/MMX/SSE2
Driver: 1.4 Mesa 7.6-devel

It’s a fairly new netbook: Asus EEEpc 1002HA

Also, I thought this release was supposed to be more netbook friendly? I didn’t see a netbook resolution choice.

#4

VESA mode also did not work. So I tried the “Check Installation Media” one and it said the MD5 checksum is wrong.

I downloaded from here:

Software.openSUSE.org

#5

It could be a bad download or a bad burn. Did you burn at the slowest speed possible?

#6

I didn’t burn at all. It’s a live USB. I copied it to the USB stick via the “dd” command:

dd if=openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M

#7

NOTE TO OPENSUSE PEOPLE:

I downloaded from a mirror and it works! So there’s something wrong with the download at the “official” location.

#8

May have just been a bad download it happens.