On 12/17/2016 10:46 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2016-12-17 17:52, Per Jessen wrote:
Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Make sure that you are using the full DVD image. If it is, then I would try using an USB stick instead. I have never tried to do an installation from a USB stick before. Not sure I know how to A) put an image on a USB stick, dd if=image of=usbstick bs=65536, for instance:
dd if=<isofile> of=/dev/sdb bs=65536 (if your USB stick sdb). A plain copy works:
cp isofile /dev/sdW
replace sdW with whatever device the USB gets.
There are instructions on the openSUSE download page.
https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick
and B) how to boot from a USB stick. (The BIOS did not present me with that option in setting up boot orders.) Try pressing F8 during bootup - that's often the boot menu. Same thing as booting from a DVD, actually. But the BIOS will not present the option till there is a stick connected.
Thanks again Carlos for responding! OK I got a bit further using a USB stick, following some other suggestions I installed ImageWriter on another openSuSE system and used it to put the ISO image onto a USB stick. Then yes I figured out that I had to have the USB stick connected before I could get the BIOS to recognize it as an option for configuring the boot order. I then configured the boot order to install first from the USB stick and proceeded with the installation. That actually got me a bit further along, and I did get pass the point where the kernel got installed and the graphical GUI's came up to handle the rest of the installation process. However I quickly hit the next snag, when asked where I want to install the new system, the partitioner is only seeing the USB stick. It does not see or present me with the ability to install the system on either the SSD drive or the hard drive that is in my laptop! So in addition to not being able to use the DVD drive, it appears the installer cannot work with either of the hard drives on my new laptop... Any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks again in advance... (This is really surprising! I don't see any reason why my DVD and disk drives on a new laptop should be causing such an issue, isn't there standard default drivers and a standard API for these things?) Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org