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HOW DO I MAKE A BOOTABLE USB DRIVE

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http://forums.opensuse.org – ITS KILLING ME OMG PLZ HELP SOMEBODY!!!:'( Ive spent the last day and a half trying to get this to work. Ive used Google to the max and nothing is working. first things first Ive followed the tutorial on the website on how to make a bootable flash stick. Win32diskimager keeps corrupting my flash drives (both 16gb Lexar and 2gb...dunno who makes it). Pen drive Linux will get me a prompt looking for a kernel at boot. and there was one more I tried and it didn't work either. after nothing worked on my windows xp tower computer I turned to my netbook (which I need the bootable usb key (Distributions)

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