[opensuse] Problems with SuSE ImageWriter?
I'm currently "remote" and only have access to Windows machines. I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to create a USB stick with openSUSE 12.3 using ImageWriter. Basic steps are: - Prepare the USB stick as RAW - ie define a partition, but do not format it (I've also tried formatting it as FAT32, NTFS and ext4 and running through these steps) - Launch ImageWriter as administrator - Locate the openSUSE ISO (verified the MD3 earlier) - Click Copy When I do this the copy dialog flashes on-screen and then nothing (no error messages). If I click Copy again, ImageWrite says it cannot access the device and asks if I'm sure I'm running as Admin. I've tested this on Windows 7 and Windows 8 (two different computers) with the same results. A friend of mine reported the exact same behaviour to me about a month ago when he was trying to install openSUSE. I usually use ImageWriter from openSUSE, and there it works perfectly. Has anyone else tried creating a bootable LiveCD on USB stick using ImageWriter from Windows lately? I've tried unetbootin, but getting odd/mixed results. I can write the ISO, but I can't yet get it to boot on the UEFI system I'm working on (gets caught in a loop early in the boot menu). I've also tried YUMI, but whatever it creates on the USB stick isn't even recognized by the UEFI side. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:51:17 +0200 C <smaug42@opensuse.org> wrote:
Has anyone else tried creating a bootable LiveCD on USB stick using ImageWriter from Windows lately?
Try this section: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Windows_Instructions
... I can write the ISO, but I can't yet get it to boot on the UEFI system I'm working on (gets caught in a loop early in the boot menu). ...
If that is a problem then signing iso would be a solution, but OBS 2.4 that can create such image is just released, so there is no easy way to create such image, like SUSE Studio. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Rajko wrote:
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:51:17 +0200 C wrote:
Has anyone else tried creating a bootable LiveCD on USB stick using ImageWriter from Windows lately?
Try this section: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Windows_Instructions
I should have mentioned that I tried those steps on both machines. There's nohting in the wiki page that I haven't done/tried. I haven't tried the old dd method though (there is a dd for Windows... I think) - this is no longer documented on the wiki page. I'm well familiar with ImageWriter on the Linux side... works perfectly there. Windows side though, I've yet to see it work on anything. I just tried it on my "work laptop" running Windows 7 and got the identical results with both RAW and FAT32 formatted as I was getting on the other computers, and as my friend got on his machine (so this is 3 spearate machines now with identical results). After starting the "copy" process, it flashes the write dialog for a millisecond (well, long enough for my eyes to see the flash) and then nothing.
... I can write the ISO, but I can't yet get it to boot on the UEFI system I'm working on (gets caught in a loop early in the boot menu). ...
If that is a problem then signing iso would be a solution, but OBS 2.4 that can create such image is just released, so there is no easy way to create such image, like SUSE Studio.
I think this is more an issue with UEFI bootable vs legacy bootable since the unetbootin written USB boots OK on a system with legacy BIOS. I can put the new computer into legacy bootable, but then it hangs on the boot (regardless of OS). Unrelated problems... I'll sort them out. As a next step, I am thinking of giving up on the USB install and buying an external USB DVD. The advantage here is I can re-install Windows 8 from the vendor supplied DVDs if it all goes south on me... and I can simply write the ISO to DVD and install from there. That said, this does't "fix" this issue I've bumbled into on the ImageWriter. Other points worth noting... the computers I'm using to attempt to write the USB stick are all running Windows (either 7 or 8). One system is UEFI, the other is Legacy BIOS. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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