Hi, I have installed opensuse on several Toshiba laptops. The various instructions that I have read all recommend that you shrink your Windows partition size from within Windows itself, rather than using a partitioning tool like gparted to decrease it. Here is a link to how to do it using win8: http://www.disk-partition.com/windows-8/shrink-volume-windows-8.html Here is a link for win7 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309169.aspx You didn't mention if you have mbr or efi boot. I presently have a Toshiba laptop which I bought to replace an older model. It uses Win8 and has a uefi boot. I had purchased the exact same type of laptop a year ago and had a lot of issues trying to get it to boot from grub2-efi. I never got it sorted out before the laptop was stolen while I was traveling in Europe. I have gotten the replacement laptop to boot from grub2-efi. It would only boot Win8 after I installed opensuse 13.2 originally, and I couldn't boot opensuse at all. The way I got it to work was to boot the opensuse partition using supergrub2, and once it was booted I used yast to write the bootloader a second time (after the original install). After that it has worked to boot from grub2-efi everytime. On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 09:24 -0800, Thomas Taylor wrote:
My wife has bought an Toshiba L55 laptop and is wondering if openSUSE could be installed to dual boot on it.
I came with Windows 7 pre-installed and no re-install DVD so would like suggestions before I attempt to install OS 13.1 on it. 'm thinking of making a Clonezilla disk image in case I mess something up. I managed to get into the BIOS and change the boot order to DVD > USB > hard disk. Originally it had hd first (to prevent installing others?).
Does anyone know of any gotchas with this model laptop or special requirements?
Thanks, Tom
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