On 2023-10-15 21:10, Mark D. Neidorff wrote:
Too much info: I just treated myself to a new computer. For surprisingly little I got a tiny but very powerful one--plenty of RAM and storage,and since I don't do "gaming" I don't need the high end video. My goal is that this will be my new desktop machine running OpenSUSE Leap. It comes with (of course) Windows 11, which will install itself when I first turn this on, and it uses UEFI.
My goals: 1. Once Windows 11 is up, get my license key for it from the running system (easy) 2. Download Windows 11 from Microsoft, and put it aside in case I want to sell this PC at some point. (easy) This will be my backup of the original system .
If the machine came with Windows, it will already be licensed. You do not need to download W11 from M$ too. And the version that came should already have the needed drivers. Also could have "interesting" software for the maker. As for a backup of the original, just image the original installation with dd and compress it. You could buy an external hard disk on USB-3 (rotating rust) of about double the size of your computer disk, install a small openSUSE on it, say a partition of 25gigs, no separate /home partition. Then partition a big data partition with the rest of the disk. I suggest btrfs with compression. Then do a dd image of each partition on the computer, plus compression (the btrfs compression doesn't seem too efficient for images). I can pass you the scripts I use for doing this.
Here's where I begin to need help because I want to avoid things going wrong: Can I instruct the installer to delete the Windows stuff and then proceed to an installation of Leap? Or are there some things that I will have to do install Leap so that everything works well? (I have to admit that this is my second try at getting Leap and UEFI to coexist. (first time was a disaster...but never mind that...I'm sure the installer is much better now)
You do not want to double boot? Then it is easy, just tell the openSUSE installer to use the entire disk.
Perhaps there is a guide already written that meets my needs and can answer these questions for me. If so, would someone please point me at it.
Dunno, there are as many guides out there as people :-D -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))