On 12/11/13 23:23, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
Am Dienstag, 12. November 2013, 16:26:51 schrieb Basil Chupin:
[...] Thanks for the above. I have just read the brief instructions about installing oS and will now read in greater detail all other articles.
Last night I downloaded the User's manual for the T530 and started reading it a short time ago. It ain't a desktop in a mini-box, is it? Isn't most of this windows-specific in there? Read the Hardware Maintenance Manual for more fun.
I started to read it last night and I see what you mean! :-D I now know one thing: I will not be replacing any FRU-FRUs any time soon! :-D
:-( Many things to get used to at the start. (The unit is being delivered next week.) Next week... then you can install oS 13.1. :)
I have a very good feeling and getting good vibes about this laptop. Today I received the mouse for it which I ordered and this mouse was despatched last week from Hong Kong and went to Fiji for some reason before finally arriving at my door this afternoon. But the laptop was despatched today from....... the city of my birth, Shanghai! :-) . If a little mice can travel to Fiji before coming to my house, I expect the laptop to at least travel to Hawaii before arriving at my front door :-) . (I really don't know how Lenovo do it! The mice is worth $23 (to me) and it travelled by air from HK to Fiji then to Sydney and finally by road transport to me - at no cost except for the cost of the mice. I order something from a computer shop 300km away and it costs me between $13 to $25 just to have it delivered. And the damn mice travels on an aeroplane from HK.......?! I think that there is gold in them there laptops, that's what I think! :-) .)
One thing which is of particular concern to me is that it comes with Windows 8 pre-installed. Seeing as how I am paying for it whether I like it or not I was thinking of keeping it and doing the freebie upgrade to W8.1. Okay. Maybe this is good enough for you: * Create a usb recovery drive (16GB IIRC) so that you can restore the state you bought it, e.g., to send it back or sell it later: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive * Download the Windows 8.1 ISO with the generic key, for detailed instructions use Google * Delete everything from the HDD when installing openSUSE * Get VirtualBox from their website and install a clean Windows 8 from the ISO there, you might have to use a generic key again and the key for activation is in here: /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
Many thanks for this valuable info. I have had a quick read and don't quite match what you say above and what is in that URL but I'll work it out. I'm not so sure that I want to download the iso for 8.1 but will want to create the recovery USB which will install 8.1 - if what I have read is what I think I read, if you see what I mean. And for the purpose of creating such a USB recovery 'disc' I just bought an 8GB USB stick as I cannot see how any installation source which is contained on a 'normal' DVD can take up more space than 8GB (in compressed files).
However, I never tried this with Windows 8. Before it, the key was printed on a label on the bottom of the laptop.
I'll look for this when I get the laptop, but the Manual doesn't specifically mention this but does mention the serial number of the unit, the model number - the usual stuff.
But I read this earlier today and now I have severe doubts if I will allow this parasitic monster to reside on the Lenovo's HDD: [...] That still holds true for an virtual installation!
Yep, this I suspected because this is the normal advice I give to people who want to use Virtual-anything and install anything-MS: you need virus scanners and all the other 3rd party industry - which MS generated - apps and which relies on MS for its continual survival. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.12.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org