Opensuse bootable flash drive

Hello all,

Im trying to create an opensuse system where its just bootable from a flash drive (not recommended because itll shorten the life of the flash drive i know but i only need it for roughly 6 months for a school project)

Im having issues when i try to do this however

First thing i tried was just downloading the installation .iso and burning it to a disk and then booting from that disk and going through the installation process (Creating the partitions, SWAP, main etc)

This seemed to work and i could boot into open suse however it also installed a grub on my computer which then caused issues. If i did not have the flash drive installed into my usb port the grub loader would give me an error saying it wasnt finding one of the disks

I then thought id just remove grub so i repaired the windows boot file using cmd prompt with my win 7 disk installed and then tried just booting directly from the usb device, and again grub popped up giving me an error and it would not boot.

What am i doing wrong?

ps im trying to use opensuse 12.1 not the latest 12.2

 

try using either unetbootin or linuxliveusb. I prefer the latter. Just download the linux .iso you want and run one of those programs. It's pretty easy.