June 6, 2008
22:53
!! Warning, long post ahead !!
So I've been using openSUSE 10.3 on my eeePC for a while now, and yesterday was the first time I took it with me to London to try out how portable and usable it was. The answer to the question is bugger me is it usable and portable!!
As I mentioned earlier I have a dual boot setup, I am tempted to change this in the near future but for now it stays. I'll try and set out the exact steps I took to get a usable openSUSE with GNOME install in a dual boot setup here. There is a page on the wiki about getting openSUSE on the eeePC, which I used pretty heavily, and I do regurgitate some of the steps mentioned. I would be super keen on hearing of other people's experiences, and also any tips/tricks. I am trying deperately to create a decent USB image via KIWI for 11.0, but keep stumbling :-/
First steps is to get openSUSE installed (yeah I know that it's obvious, the question is how). You have several options here - use an external USB CD/DVD drive, use a USB image (using the funky KIWI), or using a USB Memory Stick as a DVD drive. My first attempt at getting openSUSE on my eeePC was successful if not a bit clunky. I chose to use the USB image that is mentioned there. Once you download the tarball you need to extract it and then get the raw file onto the USB stick so that you can actually boot from it using dd:
1) Insert your memory stick
2)Unmount your memory stick, right-clicking and selecting "unmount" is fine
3)Put openSUSE onto the USB stick and make it bootable
dd if=/home/andrew/tmp/eeeSUSE-liveusb of=/dev/sdb bs=4096You will of course have to change the if= (input file) parameters, and potentially the location for the of= (output file) which is your memory stick.
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