david1 LXDE flash drive install

By basd on Dec 1, 2011 | In opensuse, lxde

So, david1, my "small" lxde flash drive install, is now functional at ver. 0.0.8. It is very bare bones and takes a bit of first-run setup.

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[This post is old news ... try ver. 0.1.1, which solved most of the issues described here!]

I ran it on the AMD based (and broken) Gateway LT3103u. I used a 4 gb flash drive.

The easy way to create the flash drive is to have an OpenSuse computer already running, with Suse Studio Imagewriter installed. There are more tedious ways (such as using dd) but you are on your own for that. Download the tar.gz file, extract it and use Imagewriter to burn it to your flash drive.

First boot goes into x windows, which I have no idea how to use other than to get to a shell prompt, type su (password - linux) and say "reboot". On reboot, at GRUB, select option 3 for a console boot. Log into root, run Yast, go to system>systemconfigmgr>desktop>displaymanager -- you find the necessary items by using moving the cursor and hitting the "+" key -- hit "enter" at displaymanager then change the empty displaymanager entry to "lxdm". Reboot again and it *should* autologin to the lxde desktop.

Bad news is it has nothing useful in it. And, no qt gui, so you get the text based version of YAST. Oops. I ran YAST and installed Seamonkey on the flash drive, so now it has a browser and an email program. I also installed the yast-qt gui, which wasn't enough, it also needed qt-pkg and then I had a reasonably normal version of YAST and Software Installer to work with (though I'm used to seeing the KDE version). Good to go.