On Mon 10 Nov 2014 09:24:28 AM CST, 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
Hi I always remove and re-install without the cruftware and grab the latest manufacturers BIOS and drivers to rebuild the system. http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/08/download-windows-7-isos-to-reinstall-wi... I mount the iso image with the default iso image mounter and remove the ef.cfg file so it can be used with any product key and select a custom install. I also put windows at the end of the drive in it's own small partition ~90GB and pre-configure the system with the openSUSE rescue CD via gdisk for uefi or fdisk for mbr. Which method of boot is it mbr or efi? -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default up 2 days 0:38, 4 users, load average: 0.20, 0.31, 0.39 CPU Intel® B840@1.9GHz | GPU Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org