[opensuse] Toshiba L55 laptop
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 -- Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. - Jack Lemmon ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD Phenom X4 955, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Nvidia 337.19) 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 27.0, claws-mail 3.10.0 registered linux user 263467 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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 I don't have any information on this model. But you might want to download the live KDE iso and burn that to a disc. Then run 13.1 off
On 11/10/2014 06:24 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: the disk and see how well the hardware is supported. You can also install the live DVD iso to a USB stick (it will run even better) and you can become more familiar with any hardware issues before installing to the hard disk. One of the benefits of the USB install is that it can be updated (see the opensuse SDB on the live USB with persistent file system) with all the latest patches. And then when you are ready to install, you can install from the live USB. Your new install will be fully updated right off the bat! Gustav.
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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
On 11/10/2014 12:24 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote:
I came with Windows 7 pre-installed and no re-install DVD
Is there no means of generating a set of DVDs? You might also be able to get a set from Toshiba. I got a set for my ThinkPad from Lenovo. I just had to request them before the warranty expired. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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
-- Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
- Jack Lemmon
^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-.
^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD Phenom X4 955, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Nvidia 337.19) 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 27.0, claws-mail 3.10.0 registered linux user 263467
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On 11/20/2014 02:14 PM, Mark Misulich wrote:
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
Also make sure a set of Windows recovery discs are available, just in case. They can be made from the existing system. Toshiba might also offer them. When I bought my ThinkPad, I got a set from Lenovo. I did the same with an earlier ThinkPad from IBM. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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