On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 06:02, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
Currently, only the LiveCDs are hybrid (check with fdisk -l openSUSE-DVD-Build0625-x86_64.iso ). For DVD and NET isos you would still have to use the old way, which (in spite of the wiki saying so) is not all obsolete: http//en.opensuse.org/SuSE_install_from_USB_drive
This procedure on the Wiki is needlessly complicated. DVDs are a dead technology for more and more people these days. DVDs are going the way of floppy disks. I think it's very short sighted and rather silly that we are not fully supporting writing the DVD ISO to USB. Anyway... the easy/quick way is to use unetbootin. It's an app in the repos... runs on Linux, Windows etc. You can create a bootable USB stick with this app in no time at all. All you need is the ISO and a USB stick. it's a billion times easier than that complicated procedure on the Wiki. You don't need to use the LiveCDs with unetbootin.. you can use the DVD ISO. Matt B. was working on the Kiwi-tools-imagewriter - which makes writing hybrid ISOs to USB dead easy by the way. I don't know what happened with that... I haven't had time to follow up on it to see if it was ever adapted to write the DVD ISO. I use the unetbootin app all the time. The DVD on USB boots up fine. At some point in the boot sequence you are dropped out of the nice GUI installer to the text based installer. The installer asks you what the boot device is and the root... tell it that you're installing from hard drive and / for the root and it switches back to the GUI installer and continues as normal. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org