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Creating SLES 11 USB install media

After having reviewed openSUSE 11.2 for my Acer Aspire Revo (which b.t.w. runs great on this box!), I've decided to go for SLES 11 due to having two applications that don't run stably (yet) on 11.2.

To my surprise SLES 11 supports the Acer's hardware just fine 'out of the box'. The challenge so far was getting SLES installed on the Acer. As it does not have a built-in CD/DVD drive, I needed to install from USB.

What's needed:

  • The SLES install DVD 1 - 32 or 64 bit
  • A USB flash drive with at least 2.6 GB free
  • A system, Linux or Windows, to create the media on

    • Note: If you have access to SUSE Studio, you can use that to quickly build a custom USB install. Sadly :) I don't have access yet, but managed to create a USB bootable stick quite easily following these two guides:

    Submitted by willem on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 09:17
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