Running OpenSuse Live from a USB?
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I'm trying to get OpenSuse to run live off of a USB Flash Drive, and it just wants to install. Is that what should be happening, or am I missing something?
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Sounds like you grabbed the installer rather than the Live version.
Grab an account with SuSE Studio and build yourself a nice little machine.
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I checked with him on that. He says he's sure it is the LiveDVD download.
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It's been a while but if I'm not mistaken, the installer also does a LiveCD choice on boot.
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Shall I try it again?
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@PSX_Defector said:
It's been a while but if I'm not mistaken, the installer also does a LiveCD choice on boot.
I asked that too. He said that he does not.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
Shall I try it again?
I thought that you were trying each time that I asked so that you were sure that no options were being missed. Did you watch it boot thoroughly because often the options time out and just take defaults.
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I tried it twice and did watch everything, nothing going on.
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Well, it now says Disk drive 3 is dead. Is that a problem?
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@Mike-Ralston said:
Well, it now says Disk drive 3 is dead. Is that a problem?
In a general sense it is a problem. But it has no effect on us since we aren't up to the point where drives should be being touched yet.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
I tried it twice and did watch everything, nothing going on.
Double check that the downloaded media really says live in the ISO name. Maybe the torrent linked to the wrong file.
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That may be an issue, it doesn't say it in the file name. It just says openSUSE 13_1
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I would expect to see that. Hmmm...
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Try the Live GNOME 64bit option.
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There is no Live anything. I'll try to get it to run with the GNOME UI, but I can't even get back to the windows bit.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
There is no Live anything. I'll try to get it to run with the GNOME UI, but I can't even get back to the windows bit.
Is that after you downloaded the Gnome Live CD that I mentioned? Can't tell the context of your statement.
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At this point, I've gone through every menu, every screen I can find. I'm not seeing a run live option, and the only way to install it is to erase all hard drive partitions. I know this may sound dumb, but can someone give me a very simple set of instructions as to how to do this, and make it rather simple? Emphasis on the word simple there
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If we get to the point of the word "install" it's too far. All options should steer away from installation before that point.
A normal LiveCD boots directly into a working desktop and stops there. If anything else happens, something is wrong earlier on.
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Explicitly: what ISO is doing this?
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The ISO you gave me for OpenSUSE.
