vrijdag 16 juli 2010

openSUSE on a stick

The release of 11.3 is a good opportunity to perform some sweeping, swooping and swapping off the depricated 11.1 and 11.2 versions of my infrastructure, therefor it comes in very handy when one just needs to run around carrying an usb stick instead of having to burn/reburn rewritables....
Anyway, follow the following steps and you should be right as rain (mostly copied from http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick):
  • Insert the usb stick into a free usb (yeah, really) port
  • Check if it shows up after issuing the following console command: ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*
  • If it does, then unmount it: umount /dev/sdX (X being the disks id)
  • Now write the iso onto the stick: dd if=/path/to/iso/NameOf.iso of=/dev/sdX
  • After a few moments something reassuring (like how many bites were written) should appear and your good to go!

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