[ale] SLES on to an usb stick and more.....

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 13:50:57 EST 2015


I think what he asked for is persistent install on usb. I would say would
be slow access.

On Monday, February 9, 2015, James Taylor <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
wrote:

> I have used the live trial images for testing, and it retains settings
> between use.
> I believe if you added a home partition to the stick, it would work for
> you.
> -jt
>
>
> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com <javascript:;>
>
>
>
> >>> "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com <javascript:;>> 2/9/2015
> 11:11 AM >>>
>
> Thanks you I am not looking to install FROM-USB.
>
> I am looking to install  TO-USB.
>
> -Narahari
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Christopher George Bollinger <
> christopher at bollingetorix.net <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> >  I was able to install OpenSuse from a USB stick using the 'dd'
> command.
> > There is much information online about it but the basic syntax is as
> > follows,
> >
> > dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M
> >
> > Here's a link with more info,
> "https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick"
> > <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick>
> >
> > Hope this is helpful.
> >
> > Christopher Bollinger
> >
> >
> >
> > On 02/09/2015 10:04 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> >
> >  Friends:
> >
> >
> >  I would like to get input on as to whether any of the members here
> has
> > installed SLES (or OpenSuse) on to an USB stick.
> >
> >  What I would lo  do is to install SLES11.3 on to a first USB stick
> > /dev/sdb -2GB in size.
> >
> > Next I would then like to use another USB stick 8GB on which I will
> be
> > installed 3 VM’s inside of KVM.
> >
> >
> >  You may ask why.  Here is the reason.
> >
> > Office has these Windows boxes that are not being used and the drives
> are
> > encrypted.
> >
> > Without erasing those drives,  I would love to use the 16GB of RAM on
> them
> > and the powerful CPU’s to run multiple VM’s for testing some
> puppet
> > deployments.
> >
> >
> >  Anyone has experience installing SLES on to an USB stick without
> GUI
> > help please advise.
> >
> >
> >  -Narahari
> >
> >
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