yast options for usb flash install

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Hi,

I want to install 11.3 on a usb flash stick on a netbook.

the internal harddisk should be completely unaffected, meaning

  • when the usb stick is plugged in, bios should boot 11.3 from the stick
  • when the stick is not plugged in, bios should boot from the internal hard disk

I am unsure how the boot options in yast have to be set to achieve that.
I changed the order of the harddisks to /dev/sdb (=the usb stick) being the first.
I selected /dev/sdb3 (The root partition of the to-be-installed 11.3) as user defined root partition.
do I have to select “start from MBR” and/or “start from root partition”?
did I miss anything?
is there more to do to make the usb stick bootable?

thanx/regards
paul

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I tell from the beginning the processing

First open yast and download the suse studio Imagewriter(write imagewriter in search gap)
Second download syslinux for opensuse through yast again!

Do this!

3

ok, I probably made a mistake when mentioning yast.
I am not in a running opensuse system but within the installation process after booting from 11.3 installation dvd (that’s what I called “yast” - probably erroneously).

is it possible to proceed from that point with the installation dvd, or do I have to boot into opensuse and install the packages you mentioned?

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Yoy must boot into opensuse to download these packages.

5

ok, I booted into the 11.1 and installed the two packages.
and now?

6

There is another way for that but this is from windows and I do not know it because I do not use windows. I have used windows since 2000.

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Then run the imagewriter and go the iso in the center and write the image into usb flash.

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???
which image?
there is no iso! I don’t want to copy a live cd onto the usb stick!
I want to make a standard full installation which uses the usb stick instead of a standard harddisk!

9

First off a USB stick is not the same thing as a SSD or hard drive. Constant write erases will bring the stick to a short end.

Here are the instructions

SDB:Live USB stick - openSUSE

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is there anyone familiar with the installation procedure that can tell me which options I have to select to make sure that the internal harddisk is not affected by installation to a usb stick?

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The same thing I said but with graphical way and not with terminal way.

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To do this you must download the iso–>write into usb with imagewriter–>set grub–>and boot from usb so
you make a standard full installation as you want.

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and again:
that is exactly my question:
during this installation “as I want” I want to make sure that grub only writes to the usb stick and not to the internal harddisk.
how are the respective options to be set during the installation procedure?

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If you do it with my way you do not write it in hdd

Please read this SDB:Live USB stick - openSUSE

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I tried both “your” way and “mine”.
I could produce a bootable installation (as checked with a laptop), but the netbook refuses to boot from the usb stick…