Boot & install SUSE 10.1 LiveCD's using USB flash drive
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Hi, my tablet PC does not have a CD-ROM drive so I intend to install SUSE 10.1 onto my harddrive using my 1G USB flash drive.
Here is the plan:
1) I downloaded the 5 isos on another computer. 2) Extract the isos onto the USB drive and use it to boot and install SUSE. Once each phase of the installation is complete, I would reformat the USB drive and then put extract the contents of the next iso onto it.
-------------- As I understand this is definitely possible. The problem is getting the PC to boot from the USB drive. I have succesfully booted from it before with other OS's so the BIOS has no problems.
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What I'm currently doing is extracting the ISO contents including folders and preserving pathnames directly onto the USB disk using WinImage in Windows. I run syslinux onto the drive to make it bootable, (tried syslinux in windows and also in linux also tried the -s command with syslinux). Either way when the machine starts it reads the USB and stops with the following message on the screen:
Syslinux 3.11 .............. Could not find kernel image: linux boot:
This came up when i tried booting different linux liveCD distro's so I am not sure what the problem is. Do I need to edit the Master boot record of the USB flash drive or does syslinux do that ? or does it only set the bootable flag to ON ?
Any help on this matter would be appreciated.
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