On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:11:00AM +0200, Neil wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
Neil wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> 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.
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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.
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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 -- http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.< You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one." © Copyright for the Digital Millennium -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org