Feature changed by: Andrey Karepin (EGDFree) Feature #305658, revision 18 Title: Official USB stick images openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Interested: Andre Duffeck (aduffeck) + Interested: Andrey Karepin (egdfree) Interested: Andrey S (seld) Interested: Bjørn Lie (zaitor) Interested: Cédric Heintz (ced117) Interested: Eric Springer (erikina) Interested: Francis Giannaros (apokryphos) Interested: Martin Schlander (cb400f) Interested: robermann79 robermann79 (robermann79) Interested: Stefan Ott (steve_odd) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It would like to see openSUSE releases with official USB images (one with KDE, one with GNOME) next to the Live-CDs. As alternative the Live-CD images could be mastered in a way that they also can boot from USB (afaik they are not able atm) together with a small app/script to install them to USB - other distributions offer that. Discussion: #1: John Thomas (john_tomas) (2009-01-13 16:28:57) Official USB images together with a small app/script to install them would be extremely cool!!! Anyway, since you said "afaik they are not able atm" i can tell that there's 2 workarounds already please see: UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) wich is actually simple and easy Portable Suse (http://en.opensuse.org/Portable_SUSE) for wich there's also a very good toturial at PenDrive Linux (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-suse-flash-drive-install/) Hope i've been of any help #2: Martin Schlander (cb400f) (2009-01-15 22:15:45) Just for clarification. The images should be installable, and preferably tested on top selling netbooks. Usb-images with only live capabilities "won't do". #3: Maksym Grytsenko (maksymgrytsenko) (2009-01-16 14:28:55) That would be nice! Lots of people already bought their netbooks, but the ease of installation is not always obvious #4: Andrey S (seld) (2009-01-16 15:12:02) This is a very good idea, since some notebooks don't even have a CD/DVD- drive (including mine), so sometimes you are unable to install from the CD and have to rely on unofficial live-USB guides. #5: Marcus Moeller (marcusmoeller) (2009-01-16 20:34:13) kiwi already allows usb installations. #6: hou ghi (houghi) (2009-01-17 11:16:02) This will not only be interesting for portables. I would rather use a USB key then burn a CD/DVD that I then trow away when the new version comes out. I believe this was also partly duscussed on FOSDEM last year. If all images would be available for download, this would be nice. Otherwise my preference would be Network, DVD version (4GB), Live CD's. Software to place the images on the USB stick must be available for Linux in GUI and CLI and also for Windows. Then instead of a flashlight in the boxed set, you could put a USB key in the boxed set. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305658