New computer questions.
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 . 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) 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. Thank you, -- Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
Thank you!!! I've already got leap 15.5 on a memory stick. The rest should be easy. Much appreciated. Mark On 10/15/23 15:26, Larry Len Rainey wrote:
In windows download rufus (portable) and Leap ISO.
Use rufus to copy Leap ISO to a 8GB or bigger USB stick.
Shut windows down and power up the computer and while startup press key to get boot menu (on Dells it is F12)
Select the USB stick with Leap ISO
Follow what the screen say to do and Leap will install (it will warn you that you will lose Windows) the defaults work fine for btrfs install. You do need to choose KDE or Gnome desktop. I like MATE but that is not an easy choice if not connect to the network during install.
I choose network manager, disable firewall, and allow ssh on the setup screen as I am behind the router and I have more than 1 machine and I can ssh into the machine to look at it if the screen fails - you might want one.
Good Luck
On 10/15/23 14:10, 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 .
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)
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.
Thank you,
-- Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
Mark D. Neidorff writes:
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.
I recently went that same path…
1. Once Windows 11 is up, get my license key for it from the running system (easy)
Either image the pre-installation with CloneZilla or just swap out the system disk (I replaced the NVMe with a larger one and added an SATA SSD on mine, so I needed to open the box anyway). No need to actually boot up Windows and answer all the questions… the license key can be extracted from either the BIOS or image by a script from c't that you can easily start from a WinPE USB stick.
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.
Depending on what your miniPC looks like, the pre-image could have extra software or drivers that you'd need to sideload into a MediaTool installation.
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)
The installer should ask what to do with the existing installation, offereing to shrink and dual-boot or wipe and install fresh. I usually wipe the disk manually and set up the partitions myself, but the suggestions from the installer should be reasonable. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada
* Mark D. Neidorff
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 .
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)
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.
on my new box, I did the original boot from a usb of clonzilla, imaged the current system and wiped the hard drive. then booted from another usb drive and installed Tumbleweed. I can use the windoz image to return the computer to an unused/as new box and return or resell it as desired. and never see windoz. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc
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))
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