I'm having issue with trying to put the 11.3 DVD iso to a USB pendrive...I've verified the ISO md5sum matches, formatted the pendrive to FAT32, unmounted and finally done:

# isohybrid openSUSE-11.3-DVD-x86_64.iso
# dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.3-DVD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync

Everything appears to work fine, but once I try to boot I get the error saying no installation CD/DVD is not found and is asking for software installation repository, so I select the media as hard drive since if I select cd/dvd drive, the message "no repository found"...then I select the USB drive (sdc1 4.2GB, iso9660, openSUSE-DVD) then it asks for "enter the source directory"...I'm not certain what to enter there, so I just point to the root directory "/" and installation continues...followed by "no new driver updates found"....so GUI starts up again...it loads kernel modules, and asks to confirm "usb-storage"...then a message "the partitioning on disk /dev/sdc is not readable by the portioning tool parted,...." I click OK...finally I get stuck on:

"Unable to create repository from URL 'hd:/?device=/dev/sdc1'...I can try again or exit back to selecting repository...I was wondering what is the proper direcotry I need to enter when I boot and get the error that no installation media/dvd is not found

Thanks you!

Did you have a look here :
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick
and
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ ?

Yes, I've tried both...everything is giving me the same issue...