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Install openSUSE from USB drive?

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musky

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Has anyone been able to install openSUSE from a USB stick? I've spent a few hours now trying to get it to work without any luck. There is apparently something about openSUSE that makes it not work with bootable USB creators like unetbootin. I do not have a spare CDROM drive, so I can't just make a bootable CD.

I am trying to figure out a netwrok install right now, so hopefully that will work. Otherwise, I am distro shopping again...
 
Eh - wrong subforum?

I'm sure we've some OpenSUSE user around here - hopefully you can get the help you need.
 
Not really. I figured with all of the folders around here running openSUSE on dedicated boxen, someone would know how to do this.
 
That is fine if you already have openSUSE installed. I do not.

This is way more hassle than it should be....
 
Steal a optical drive from a boxen for the install and then plug it back in after the fact?

That's what I did until I borke down and got a Slim USB DVD drive. Now most of the systems in the house have no optical drive, but if they need one I jut plug it in.

Have no clue on the 'nix side.
 
One of these days...seems odd that I have thousands of dollars in computer equipment, but I won't break down and buy a $20 SATA CDROM drive... :) Believe it or not, I literally do not have an SATA CDROM in this house, and the ASUS board does not have an IDE controller.
 
For about $30 or so you can get a slim dvd rom from amazon. Make sure you get a DVD. Many OS need the space.
Love mine. Solves a bunch of problems.
 
Well, I give up. It was a complete no-go with openSUSE, and Fedora wouldn't recognize my hard drive. I did find an old IDE controller, but I couldn't figure out how to get a CDROM attached to it to boot.

BTW, what do you gain with slim drive? Space isn't a problem.
 
musky i have been trying for a week to get opensuse on my new box.....no go.

getting a slimdowned linux install to run F@H on this box is turnout out to be quite a challenge
 
musky said:
BTW, what do you gain with slim drive? Space isn't a problem.
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portability, many of the slim drives do no require external power, so its easier to move from one box to another when you need to do an install.
 
lassiterb said:
portability, many of the slim drives do no require external power, so its easier to move from one box to another when you need to do an install.
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This.

The one I got needs 2 USB ports. One for power, another for power/data.

So when I need to do an install, I just plug two USB wires in and I'm good to go.
 
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

One of my favorite little sites for such things. Might help. You should be able to figure out how to make a persistant install. Without having to install linux on a machine you could load up a VM in Virtual Box or VMware. Virtual box is good stuff, and a little cheaper than VMware Fuzion. ;)
 
I couldn't get unetbootin or any of the other iso - to - usb proggies to work with openSUSE. This is something about a couple of the files needed for booting that don't work. There are several articles on it, but no particularly good solution that I could get to work. I think I am going to scrap openSUSE and try Debian.
 
I got it to work just fine. Unetbootin will download the distro for you and install it to the thumb drive directly. Though since I already downloaded it I was able to select "ISO" and install it that way.
I've only tried ubuntu though, so I can't really comment on opensuse's install on a usb drive.

Why were you looking at opensuse anyway? are there any features that it has over others that make you want it?
 
pwrusr said:
I got it to work just fine. Unetbootin will download the distro for you and install it to the thumb drive directly. Though since I already downloaded it I was able to select "ISO" and install it that way.
I've only tried ubuntu though, so I can't really comment on opensuse's install on a usb drive.

Why were you looking at opensuse anyway? are there any features that it has over others that make you want it?
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because ubuntu 10 doesnt work for F@H :(
 
Maybe there is a reason you haven't tried it, but Ubuntu 9.04 is reported to work just fine with FAH.
 
pwrusr said:
There's a few fixes for ubuntu 10.04's folding issues. but for ease of install get 9.04 for folding rigs. seems to be the best version for folding.
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Yeah i tried those and it didnt work for me.
 
I have 9.04 Ubuntu on most of my rigs at the moment. 9.04 server doesn't work with unetbootin (it keeps griping about not having a CDROM and won't install), but desktop does.

The reason I am distro shopping is that 9.04 is a pretty old kernel, and I wanted to try something newer for non-folding reasons. When nitro asked a while back, several people suggested openSUSE so I figured I would give it a try. I finally got it installed in a VM, and I must say I am not at all impressed with it. It is just not very easy to deal with.

I just started playing with Debian Lenny, and so far, I like it. That may end up being what i go with.
 
Yeah, I use opensuse at work. can't say I'm too impressed. it's stable, yes.. and yast is nice for remote admining. I know my way around the linux command line well enough that I don't really need it. Yast also seems a bit bloated and in the end tends to make the computer/server that it's running on a bit slower then it could have otherwise been with a lighter OS like debian.
I really like Debian Lenny for servers if ubuntu server doesn't play nice :D
 
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