openSUSE on a flashdrive / openSUSE no pendrive - 2

openSUSE on a flashdrive, by:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-suse-flash-drive-install/



This tutorial covers the process of creating a SUSE Linux USB Flash Drive using the OpenSUSE Live CD. This tutorial works much like the install to an External USB Hard drive with the exception that the user is performing a full OpenSUSE install to a USB flash drive. The process does differ slightly! This tutorial was made possible due to a custom Portable SUSE script created and provided by James Rhodes. Please note that due to the limited number of write functions a flash drive can handle before going bad, you may reduce the life of your flash drive by performing this installation.

Screenshot of OpenSUSE running Portably from flash:

USB SUSE install Requirements:

• 4GB+ USB flash drive (Highly recommend the OCZ Rally 2 Turbo)
• OpenSUSE Live CD
• Portable SUSE conversion script

How to make a Portable SUSE:
Warning: Before proceeding, backup all data you wish to save from your flashdrive. In addition, physically disconnect any internally attached hard drives to avoid the possibility of installing to the wrong device. If your flash drive contains a fat filesystem it will be shrunk and new partitions will be added for the SUSE OS (so you will still have a Windows accessible partition).

1. Download the Live CD KDE (685MB) ISO, burn to a CD and start your system from the CD
2. Once SUSE is up and running, insert your USB flashdrive
3. When prompted that a new medium has been detected, select the option to Do Nothing and check the box to Always do this for this type of media then click OK


4. Next, click the My Computer icon from your SUSE desktop
5. Locate your USB device from the Disk Information section on the page
6. Right click on the device and select Properties


7. From the Properties window that appear, click the Mounting tab
8. Uncheck the Mount automatically box and click OK


9. From the Disk Information section, right click on the device again and select to Safely Remove


10. * Now unplug and reinsert your flash drive.
11. You may be prompted again that a new medium has been detected, select the option to Do Nothing and check the box to Always do this for this type of media then click OK


12. Next, start the installer via the install icon on your desktop and proceed to follow the onscreen instructions. Once you get to the Live Installation Settings page, click Partitioning


13. Next, from the Suggested Partitioning page, select the option to Base Partition Setup on This Proposal and click Next


14. Now from the Expert Partitioner page, select your Fat Partition and click Resize


15. From the resize pop up window that appears, reduce the size of your windows partition to around 200MB or less


16. In the pop up that appears click Yes to allow the Linux partiton to use the new empty space


17. Next, Accept and continue the install. Once the installer has finished, reboot your computer. Remove the CD from the drive and proceed to boot from the USB device
18. Continue the onscreen setup process… users and passwords etc. * Skip the Online Update Configuration step. (Select Configure Later)
19. Once your up and running again, press alt+f2 and type konsolesu then press Enter
20. Type wget pendrivelinux.com/downloads/portablesuse.tar.gz
21. Type tar -zxvf *.tar.gz
22. Type ./installation and follow the onscreen instructions answering y to all of the questions
23. Type reboot to reboot and ensure that everything is still working

That's all there is to it. You should now be able to run your Portable SUSE from any PC that can boot from a USB device. You can now re-attach any internal drives to your PC and run your Portable SUSE whenever and wherever you want.

See other ways on:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Get_isohybrid

openSUSE no pendrive - 1 - Bootable USB from DVD or Net-install

 

Bootable USB from DVD or Net-install

by:

 http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Create_a_Live_USB_.28GUI.29

[edit] Download DVD ISO

Download one of the DVD or Net Installation images from http://software.opensuse.org/

Linux instructions 1. Install syslinux/isohybrid If you would like to boot the from a USB stick then you can make the ISO bootable by installing syslinux. # zypper in syslinux # isohybrid openSUSE-12.1-DVD-x86_64.iso Once completed just follow whichever set of above LiveUSB instructions you like, and take care to read the Booting from USB-DVD section below afterward, like the instructions below.

2. Find Block Device

Plug-in your USB stick and find what "/dev/disk*" it is mapped to by opening Terminal and executing:

# diskutil list

This will print out the list of currently mapped devices/partitions. Find the USB using "NAME" column. Then note the corresponding /dev/disk*. For example:

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE        NAME                    SIZE   IDENTIFIER
   0:                       FAT32                               2.0 GB   disk0
   1:                                   USB2                    2.0 GB   disk0s1

In this case /dev/disk2 is the one we want.

Or:

Plug-in your USB stick and find it executing:

# fdisk -l

You can see the results:


Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x271ebf44


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048     3074047     1536000   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2   *     3074048   488396799   242661376    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT


Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0 GB, 16022241280 bytes
82 heads, 18 sectors/track, 21201 cylinders, total 31293440 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *        8064    31293439    15642688    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)



where your 16 GB flash device, in this case, is /dev/sdb1

3. Unmount USB Stick

Unmount the USB stick

# diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk*

Where /dev/disk* is the one you have found in previous step.

4. Write ISO to USB

Write the content of the ISO file:

# sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/disk* bs=1M

Again the /dev/disk* is the same one you have found previously. You will be prompted for the administrator's password.

5. Booting from USB-DVD

Write the image to the USB stick using the Windows instructions above.

• Hit F4, change the installation source to Hard Drive, but leave all fields blank and hit Enter to close the dialog.
• Type "namescheme=by-label" into the boot options for "Installation" and start the installation; you should go straight to the installer without a hitch.

openSUSE USB Install

by:

http://www.confignotes.com/2011/03/opensuse-usb-install/




Installing openSUSE 11.4 using a USB drive.
Download the openSUSE-11.4-DVD-x86_64.iso file for 64bit x86 system. I used another Linux system to prepare the USB drive, you can also boot from a Linux live DVD. Need at least an 8GB USB drive, openSUSE 11.4 iso is 4.3GB.
1. Erase USB drive using dd:

Use dmesg to identify the USB drive device (example: sdb). Or (a better option):

Para saber qual é essa identificação, com o pendrive conectado no computador, digite no terminal o comando:

# fdisk -l

O resultado aparecerá na janela do terminal. Veja a imagem abaixo que mostra o resultado do comando fdisk e na outra imagem o resultado do comando dd. O pendrive, nesse caso, é o ultimo da lista, sendo o dispositivo /dev/sdc1.

O comando, neste exemplo, ficaria assim:

# dd if=openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=65536 count=10000
2. Use zypper to update the syslinux:
# zypper in syslinux
3. Run isohybrid, isohybrid is availabe with the updated syslinux:
# isohybrid /path…/openSUSE-11.4-DVD-x86_64.iso
where path… is the directory location of the openSUSE iso.
4. Write the content of the iso file to the USB drive:
# dd if=/path…/openSUSE-11.4-DVD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
Boot from the USB flash drive to install openSUSE 11.4
Note: You’ll get a warning when you run isohyrid:
Warning: more than 1024 cylinders (4403).
Not all BIOSes will be able to boot this device.
The cylinder=1024. It should be ok to procede if you have a newer system (south bridge that support SATA). The section of isohybrid perl scripts that displayed the error looks like this:
$c = int($imgsize/$cylsize);
if ($c > 1024) {
    print STDERR “Warning: more than 1024 cylinders ($c).\n”;
    print STDERR “Not all BIOSes will be able to boot this device.\n”;
    $cc = 1024;
} else {
    $cc = $c;
}

ATI Driver and Catalyst tool on OpenSuse 11.3 64 bits (x86_64)

Getting Catalyst 10.9 to Run on openSuSE 64 bits (x86_64)

see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx#Supported_Hardware

Preconditions:
1. Fresh standard install of openSuSE x86_64, with KDE Graphical Desktop Environment.
2. You have already verified that your graphics card is supported by ATI's Catalyst drivers.

Prep Stage
1. Determine your installed kernel flavor.
Issue this command from the terminal: 'uname -r'
Output is something like: 2.6.x.y-pae or 2.6.x.y-smp or 2.6.x.y-desktop depending on your system. Let's call this your kernel flavor. You will need this info when you get to Step 3 below.
Note the default video drivers loaded/used by KDE.
Click on "My Computer" on the default plasma folder. Note the details provided in the 'Display Info' section, particularly the 2D and 3D drivers currently used by X.
2. Get needed packages.
Make sure the following packages are available: {gcc, make, patch, kernel-devel, kernel-flavor-devel,kernel-source, kernel-syms, module-init-tools, glibc, glib-devel, zlib*, libstdc++, libgcc}
3. Update your openSuSE system to install all NEEDED patches.
You will be asked to reboot, and your kernel will become 2.6.34.7-0.3-flavor or something similar.
4.Get the latest Catalyst Display Driver (Rev 10.9) from ATI's website.
5. Remove any pre-existing fglrx modules running on your system.
Ignore this step if no fglrx modules are running and loaded in your system.
(Command to list existing fglrx modules) rpm -qa | grep -E 'fglrxG01|fglrxG02'
(Command to remove existing fglrx modules) zypper rm 'rpm -qa | grep -E 'fglrxG01|fglrxG02' '
(You can also use YaST to remove the existing fglrx modules if you want, instead of zypper)

Install Stage
6. Go to runlevel 3, log-in and become the superuser. (init 3 / telinit 3)
7. Get Sebastian Siebert's script.
This script will simplify and automate patching of compat_alloc_user_space() which if not done will break the compile process for ATI's Catayst Display Driver with kernel 2.6.34.7-0.3.
This script will also check for needed packages and get them for you automatically. It then runs ATI's installer to automagically set things up for you! (Thanks and credit to Mr. Sebastian Siebert).

wget http://www.sebastian-siebert.de/downloads/makerpm-ati-10.9.sh
8. Get download checksum and verify integrity of downloaded file.
wget http://www.sebastian-siebert.de/downloads/make-rpm-ati-10.9.sh.sha1
sha1sum -c makerpm-ati-10.9.sh.sha1
Screen output should be like: makerpm-ati-10.9.sh: OK
9. Change file ownership and permission of downloaded script file.
chown root:root makerpm-ati-10.9.sh
chmod 744 makrpm-ati-10.9.sh
10. Finally, run the script.
./makerpm-ati-10.9.sh -i
That's it. Reboot your machine and check the display drivers loaded by KDE in 'My Computer'.


Sebastian Siebert offers an optional but highly recommended step to ensure that the system will build the fglrx kernel module before starting the desktop GUI environment in case another kernel update becomes necessary. (./makerpm-ati-10.9.sh -irs)
[Thanks to Google Translate which allowed me to understand Mr. Siebert's instructions in his website]

I hope this information is helpful to someone. Let's hear of your experience.