В Mon, 3 Jun 2013 22:43:01 -0400 пишет:

I have a new laptop that I'm anxious to get opensuse onto. After failing miserably with both virtualbox and 12.2, and reading that 12.3 works fine with uefi, I've downloaded 12.3 and written it onto a dvd.

I backed up my W7 system, but I don't want to lose the vendor-supplied recovery partition (there is, of course, no recovery dvd). When I boot into 12.3 install, I get the message, "You have to delete all existing partitions to get a valid uefi boot partition", or text to that effect. There are no other options offered (the present partition setup is corrupt due to the disastrous 12.2 attempt), and I see no way to avoid wiping the recovery partition.

Is your Windows 32 or 64 bit?

Can anyone offer any help, here?

John Perry

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j.e.perry@cox.net wrote:

I backed up my W7 system, but I don't want to lose the vendor-supplied recovery partition (there is, of course, no recovery dvd).

Before you do anything else, make a set of the recovery discs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

---- j.e.perry@cox.net wrote:

I have a new laptop that I'm anxious to get opensuse onto. After failing miserably with both virtualbox and 12.2, and reading that 12.3 works fine with uefi, I've downloaded 12.3 and written it onto a dvd.

I backed up my W7 system, but I don't want to lose the vendor-supplied recovery partition (there is, of course, no recovery dvd). When I boot into 12.3 install, I get the message, "You have to delete all existing partitions to get a valid uefi boot partition", or text to that effect. There are no other options offered (the present partition setup is corrupt due to the disastrous 12.2 attempt), and I see no way to avoid wiping the recovery partition.

Thanks to those who commented. I finally went back to the VBox idea. The original problem had been that after I got the suse VM set up, I couldn't make it work with the 800G ext2 partition I'd set up for suse when I first tried dual-booting. It was also very slow -- took as much as 3 seconds between mouse pointer jumps, for instance, and never approached usable user interaction. And top never showed anything consuming over a percent or two of CPU. Unable to convince myself that I could safely set up dual-boot, I went back to VBox. When I started it up, the old 4.2.8 informed me that 4.2.12 was now available, so I updated it. I can now run my virtual suse as fast as if it were in dual-boot; I have access to the entire hard drive (via W7 and ext2fsd); and can move easily between W7 and suse with a click of the mouse. Kudos to the VBox developers and the suse people who have helped us get VBox working well with W7/suse. Don't know whether the VBox update worked better, or I corrected some configuration error, but the original 12.2 VM ran at full speed. And the 12.3 that I just installed works at least as well, as far as I can see. Speaking of the mouse, I love the X clipboard, but it requires a middle mouse button. This stupid Samsung NP700Z is really fine except in one respect -- it has no middle button. The touchpad detects only a left and a right button, and the usual workaround of hitting both at once doesn't. Anyone know of a way to get my X clipboard back? John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org