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

[pbcartwright at gmail.com (Paul Cartwright)]

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
>
 I use unetbootin to create bootable USB sticks..

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

you pick the distro, it creates the bootable OS.

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Paul Cartwright
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