After waiting for 11.4 to arrive #dd failed me. I have earlier created installation usb for
opensuse-11.3 and debian-squeeze by terminal command #dd if=linux-xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
and they successfully installed the OSs on my netbook. In fact the flash-drive that I used for 11.4 had earlier contained 11.3 so that I have also lost the source of 11.3
The usb now shows (result of running #fdisk /dev/sdb)
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 695 711680 83 Linux
After inserting the stick on a port the panel is showing two icons one square reading “Mount openSUSE Live CD GNOME” the other circular reading “open cdrom0” and the Desktop also has the tell-tale cdrom0 icon. Since it is a Netbook the bios has no option of “cdrom0”, only “usb” and “hard disc”. So no wonder that the netbook booted only from the hard disc. What is happening here?
Thanks for help.
P.Rudra.
IMO
“Mount openSUSE Live CD GNOME” likely is only a volume label, is unimportant to what the device actually is. Double check this, as you noted even after your OS boots to see what device your system believes it is.
“open cdrom0” may or may not be important. I haven’t investigated the particulars (someone else might comment on this) but it’s common for some USB sticks to still be recognized as USB storage while also spawning a virtual CDROM device. If I were to guess, it might have to do whether the device is recognized and mounted by udev or by a Kernel Loadable Module but I’m purely guessing.
Although I haven’t done what you’re doing, I’d maybe recommend that instead of copying the ISO file to your USB you might extract the files, then write the individual files to the USB stick. My train of thought would be that your LiveCD media then wouldn’t be confused with optical media and would then appear more like a hard drive source.
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Although I haven’t done what you’re doing, I’d maybe recommend that instead of copying the ISO file to your USB you might extract the files, then write the individual files to the USB stick. My train of thought would be that your LiveCD media then wouldn’t be confused with optical media and would then appear more like a hard drive source.
HTH and guessing,
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This seems a good suggestion. But how? Kindly advise. Thanks.
P.Rudra.
First, it has been solved. I forgot one step in creating the usb. The sequence of steps is this.
Determine the drive (after inserting the usb in a port) by running #ls -l /dev/disc/by-id/usb
with output like
-------/sdb /sdb1
Unmount /sdb1 by running (I forgot this step) #umount /dev/sdb1
Run #dd if=/path/linux-xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
4)The device will automatically make other partitions on the usb during the first-time booting.
My Netbook being rather slow it was taking quite a long time during the first boot. I became impatient after using about 5 minutes and quit.
I later on performed the first boot on an old 36GB Dell-Inspiron-1150 laptop which has many defects and has now been stacked out. (I did not want to erase
debian-squeeze on my new laptop.) After this installing opensuse-11.4 on my Netbook went smoothly. And I am now having fun.
P.Rudra.