On 9/19/20 2:32 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 19/09/2020 05.15, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 9/18/20 11:37 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
Now, I had no idea such tool even existed, and I am not at all suggesting that we change anything in our ISOs because of it.
It apparently is a quite famous image writing tool for Windows, and live ISOs of other distros apparently work well with it, but let's live this aside for now.
It is....
I don't use windows at all, but I have used rufus in the times that I do and I'd wager that if you took a current poll of all windows users likely to try Linux in the next year and what tool they would use to write an image to a usb-stick, the result would likely be more than 50% planned on using rufus. /skip/
I mentioned in another post that Windows 10 is fussy about formatting anything that has ever been used for Linux--that's why Rufus. And we know that Rufus doesn't seem to like OpenSUSE--or vice versa. Here's a tool for Windows that will format a flash-drive in Windows: HP USB Storage Format Tool. Download is free. It will create FAT, Fat32, or NTFS. It takes *forever* but it works. I formatted a Linux-used 16 GiB stick to FAT32 and it took literally hours on a reasonably fast computer in the latest version of Windows 10. Gparted shows a completely clean blank partition on the whole unit. Be aware that you have to become Administrator on Windows to install the file. The way that worked for me is as follows: 1. Windows key + r to get a run command.* Type nelplwiz. Enter. 2. Select user account, click properties button. Click Group Membership tab. 3. Choose account type: standard user or ADMINISTRATOR Click OK. I found that I had to right-click the install (exe) file to get it to work--left click said need administrator status to run the file. *If you don't have a Windows key--as I don't, using an old IBM keyboard-- the work-around is left-ctrl + esc. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org