USB installation

I had trying to create a booting installation openSUSE 12.3 DVD .iso stick, making it by netbootin 5.83, but costs almost 3 hours long, is it normal?

Depends on your download speed… my openSUSE-12.3-DVD-x86_64.iso shows size as 4.5 GB or 4,691,329,024

Instead of netbootin, I followed this wiki https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick and created a USB stick for booting/installing GNU/Linux using SUSE Studio Image Writer.

Creating the USB stick with the installation DVD .iso onboard took a number of minutes (less than 10 if I recall correctly) and then when installing from the USB stick, the actual software installation portion (not counting user interaction times) took less than 5-minutes. The PC was a core i7 and both PC ports and USB stick were USB-3.0 (and were compatible with each other).

Your 3 hour reads to be excessive.

I’m not an expert in this. Hopefully when more information is provided by yourself, the experts will step in and help.

I think I see some misunderstanding here by those who try to help you. Can you explain erxactly what “costs almost 3 hours”? The downloding of the ISO over the network, the creation of the bootable USB stick, or booting from the USB stick?

Much more detail is required.

Please take into account that we are not sitting behind you and thus can not know what exactly you are doing.

Thank you for trying to understand my english, it is complicated sentence to me. I’v downloaded the openSUSE 12.3 32 bit DVD .ISO file, about 4.3GB. Select it in NetBootin of Ubuntu, The creation of the bootable USB stick costs me nearly 3 hours.

On 2013-07-08 14:16, motutus wrote:

> Thank you for trying to understand my english, it is complicated
> sentence to me. I’v downloaded the openSUSE 12.3 32 bit DVD .ISO file,
> about 4.3GB. Select it in NetBootin of Ubuntu, The creation of the
> bootable USB stick costs me nearly 3 hours.

Use the instructions on our wiki, pointed from the download page. Either
use dd or imagewriter.

Writing 4.7GB at 1MB/S would take 4700 seconds, ie, 1.31 hours -
assuming a slow flash stick.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

Everytime I’m asked to install openSUSE on some new piece of hardware or a new version is released, or, or… I run through a routine in which I make anywhere
from three to half a dozen bootable thumb drives for pre-install testing. I never spend more than a few minutes to make a new one. I simply download and verify the ISO (if I don’t have it already) and use “SUSE Studio ImageWriter” to create the “bootable device”.

IMHO the article at SDB:Live USB stick - openSUSE Wiki is very useful and informative, however it’s efforts to cover every eventuality make the routine use of the program sound more difficult to use than it really is. In most instances it’s incredibly simple and effective. I certainly know how to use other more powerful, more configureable options like dd etc, but for most purposes I find those options simply aren’t needed.

Once the ISO is downloaded and verified, and ImageWriter is installed, it’s a simple case of opening the program, dragging the ISO into the ImageWriter window from any file manager, selecting the USB device from a drop-down window and clicking the “write” button.

BTW, there’s a windows version too, useful if you’re just getting ready to try openSUSE for the first time.

Agreed. In general, the article is good (informative), however, it could stand for a bit of revision

It really is brain dead simple with SUSE Studio Imagewriter … (for use with hybrid ISOs)

As you are a newcomer I would suggest you to check the following link along with official wiki page…
Technology | For your comfort: openSUSE-Making bootable USB

I created the bootable openSUSE USB stick in Ubuntu which is in another USB stick