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[Ruben Safir <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:11:00AM +0200, Neil wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Neil wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Clayton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > > Does anyone know how I can turn the flash drive into a bootable
> > > > > > > install
> > > > > > > disk?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Ruben,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There is some documentation on the wiki[0] but I've never used it
> > > > > > myself.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > h
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [0] http://en.opensuse.org/SuSE_install_from_USB_drive
> > > > >
> > > > > I've used these instructions, and they are well written and work
> > > > > great.  I install openSUSE exclusively from a USB drive on my
> > > > > computers now.
> > > > >
> > > > > C
> > > >
> > > > I'm using a cruzer micro 8g disk and its not working.  When I try to boot
> > > > it, it says can't boot hdd or something of that affect.
> > > >
> > > > Ruben
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> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Did you change the boot device in the BIOS?
> > > Is the USB stick set as bootable?
> > > What version of the EeePC do you have? (I had succes with this
> > > tutorial and an original (701) 8G)
> >
> > Oh BTW - it is a 2g surf (sky blue if it matters ;) )
> > > Hope we can find it, but you can always use the install CD, a sub 2GB
> > > fat 16 partition and the original mkbootdisk
> > >
> > >
> > > Neil
>
> Hi
>
> Where do you see the problem? Before installing?  >> is the USB stick
> itself set as bootable? (fdisk -l <usbstick>, doe s it show a *?)
> Do you see the problem after installing but @ first boot? 

which problem?  :)

The bottom line is that the instructions don't work on a 9.3 system
because of some change in mkfs.vfat

the file system that was produced wouldn't boot (and I tried a number
of variation LBA 32, just 32



> > Suse 10.3
> didn't see that the first harddisk was used to install it (and was an
> USB key) so it put Grub on the MBR of the USB stick. This resulted in
> needing the USB stick to boot. When the EEE was booted I could remove
> the key, no problems. Using 11.0 fixed this.

Yeah, installing grub manually actually would be useful on the stick or
the drive.  I have no idea how to do that.  With lilo is was easy.

 
> Please answer all of my questions. You missed the question:
> > > Is the USB stick set as bootable?

Yes
 
> > Oh BTW - it is a 2g surf (sky blue if it matters ;) )
> Nah, just wanted to know wether it was a 701 or a 901 or a 1000 or a
> 63478162439642982347568924735723478 or something else entirely. You,
> my good man, have a 701 with a Centrino CPU, a Physon ssd and Atheros
> network cards, if I am not mistaking.

That would be correct.

BTW - you need to change the default drive manually when installing.
Otherwise it does just what you said, installs on the stick, which is
kind of useless.


Ruben


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