OpenSuse Leap 15.2: Create bootable ISO USB for Net Installation

This is a quick reference for writing a bootable iso image to usb on linux opensuse 15.2.


su -
wget https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/iso/openSUSE-Leap-15.2-NET-x86_64-Current.iso
fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk model: KINGSTON RBUSNS8
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 55B801A4-B499-43AD-8801-A72902DA8D47

Device         Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048    206847    204800  100M EFI System
/dev/sda2     206848    239615     32768   16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3     239616 198803455 198563840 94.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4  247955456 250052607   2097152    1G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda5  198803456 247955455  49152000 23.4G Linux filesystem

Partition table entries are not in disk order.


Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: ST1000DM010-2EP1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 43D71079-C5D7-488A-8705-F0CCD6AED46C

Device          Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 1820403711 1820401664  868G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdb2  1820403712 1821427711    1024000  500M EFI System
/dev/sdb3  1821427712 1937434623  116006912 55.3G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb4  1937434624 1953525134   16090511  7.7G Linux swap


Disk /dev/sdc: 14.5 GiB, 15518924800 bytes, 30310400 sectors
Disk model: UDISK           
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x17645921

Device     Boot Start    End Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1         276   8591    8316   4.1M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sdc2  *     8592 284671  276080 134.8M 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
umount /dev/sdc

umount: /dev/sdd: not mounted.

dd if=openSUSE-Leap-15.2-NET-x86_64-Current.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M status=progress && sync

31+1 records in
31+1 records out
131072000 bytes (131 MB, 125 MiB) copied, 12.6478 s, 10.4 MB/s

Published: June 14, 2020

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