On 02/07/2020 06.36, Doug wrote:
On 7/1/2020 2:46 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ok, first thing is you do not send large attachments to a mail list, impacting every subscriber and archiver. Instead, you put in some external share place, such as susepaste.org, and tell the link in a post.
Or you could use "diskpart" to obtain a list of partitions, in text.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-comma...
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I apologize for the picture. I didn't know about the problem it caused, or a way around it. (I don't know if susepaste would work from this Windows computer, and I never heard of diskpart--I don't know if that works on Windows either.)
Yes, it works with any system :-)
--doug
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Now, about your partition setup. The best thing is to have NO partitions at all where you want Linux to go, because the install program will want to create them, and if sees all used space it will either baulk or want to delete the wrong partition.
So, you could delete partitions 5, 6, and 7 and then run the SUSE installer. Or not, and tell the expert partitioner in the installer what to use, as I described on another post.
A year ago I installed OpenSuse TW on the predecessor to this Windows machine, and it was well behaved about leaving the Windows partitions alone and starting after the windows data partition. (I had made a Linux partition.) Can I expect that still to be true? Or I could put all of Linux (except it's boot environment) on a second drive, but I don't ever expect to use up as much of /dev/hda1 as my partitioning scheme allows for. (I think I have the terminology right--hda1--for first storage drive?)
In a previous post, Carlos said he had NO OPPOSITION to my partitioning scheme, altho he said to let Linux do it.
Yes, I say the same thing with other phrasing :-)
I just looked at an example of someone's partitioning setup. "Manual Partitioning of HardDisk in OpenSuse Tumbleweed in VirtualBox 5.2 for Beginners" from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWi-W_P4FjY
I don't wish to get involved with Virtual Box--I don't see any reason to. I just want to put three partitions after the Windows three, which I have shrunk to what I think is a reasonable minimum, altho I think I could make the Windows data partition smaller, and the Linux /boot
Whoa, wait, don't make a /boot partition.
partition smaller, and give that extra space to /home. Then leave the small Windows partition 4 where it is, since Windows will presumably look for it there. I did not see Suse changing the sizes of the many partitions that our Italian friend proposed, unless I missed that.
I'm not going to watch a video about a partitioning proposal :-p
And ESP is the partition 1. Strange that it is fat32. And strange that also partition 5 has "boot, esp" flags.
(I have no idea what the "esp" is there for. /boot is, of course, the Linux system partition.)
ESP: EFI System Partition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition
I would just delete 5, 6, and 7, then install. See below. (snipped.)
But I don't understand your story about partitioning. When I installed Suse TW on the old Windows machine--the one that died--it made just ONE partition, no home, no swap (if I remember). That's not what I want. I want basically what I have shown. Is that not possible? OTOH, I have seen the diagram in the video I mentioned above with, I think it was, 10 partitions. I see no reason for that--it's just wasting space forecasting what MIGHT wind up on one of his multitude of shelves. But, de gustibus non disputandam.
You do not need /boot. You need one ESP, which already exists. linux will write files there. It is your partition #1. You need one swap in a laptop, if you hope to hibernate the machine. I can't recommend a size without knowing your ram. It is possible to make do without it, but I don't recommend it. You can then make do with a single partition for both system and /home. It optimizes space, but makes maintenance more difficult (see below). Better install in two partitions, one for the system and another for /home. The system partition can be as small as 10 GB (even less). I'd use 20 or more. If using btrfs, I'd start with 50. And the rest for /home. The rationale for having two partitions, is that you can reinstall the system without touching your data in /home. Or install a different distribution. The openSUSE installer works best if the disk has empty, non-partitioned space. It will simply use it and create partitions there. If the space is partitioned, tell the installer to delete those partitions and make its own - so the three partitions you created waste time and effort. There is an option somewhere in the installer to tick several partitions to tell the installer to "use these". Find that option and use it. Just go ahead and install. If you don't like the results, scratch it and install again with what you learned. But remember: make an image backup of your Windows machine first (use clonezilla). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)