Trying to install on netbook

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I’m trying to install opensuse 11.1 on a netbook, and I installed the openSUSE-11.1-NET-i586.iso file on a USB stick. However, I can’t get it to boot off the USB stick. It goes straight into windows xp.

How do I get this started?

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You may have trouble with the .net installer. Try putting it on a stick with unetbootin, but don’t panic if it doesn’t work. If it does, and it sees the network, you’re laughing. Otherwise you may have to set up one of your computers as a local SUSE mirror, or quit the installer and mount another ISO as a source - and I don’t even know that that works in openSUSE.

Easiest way I’ve found to get SUSE on a netbook is to use unetbootin to install the Live ISO to a usb stick, then delete config.isoclient in the root of the stick, and replace it with config.kde.isoclient or config.gnome.isoclient depending on which you’re using (i.e. copy appropriate file and rename copy config.isoclient).

It should now boot - if not, try other tips here perhaps;

How to Make openSUSE 11.1 LiveUSB | Spirit of Change

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I made the disk bootable with these commands:

umount /dev/sdb1
mount -o loop openSUSE-11.1-2-NET-i586.iso /mnt
/mnt/boot/i386/mkbootdisk --32 --partition /dev/sdb1 /mnt

However, the laptop (Asus eee 1002HA) does not see it as bootable. I went into the bios and changed it to boot first off the removable device but it just boots into windows. Help! This computer has no DVD/CD player!

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OK, I figured it out!

On the Asus, in the bios you need to do:

  1. Boot Configuration
  2. Hard Drives
  3. Move the USB disk to the top (otherwise it won’t appear in the boot order as an option)
  4. exit back out to the boot main page
  5. Boot Priority
  6. Move the USB to the top

Pretty stupid.

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Good work. Hope it sees the network…

If not, you may well have more luck with the Live image. Good luck.

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Hi
I’m running a 1000HE, everything important is working in Gnome,
bluetooth, wireless, wired, sd reader, webcam, sound with some
tweaking, suspend etc.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 (i586) Kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae
up 8:41, 1 user, load average: 0.52, 0.39, 0.24
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

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I had an additional problem where it said it could not delete the existing windows partitions and to check “fs”. To fix this, I had to remove one of the partitions (which was an empty partition anyways). Any idea why this happened?