On 15/02/16 16:33, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:19:59 +0000 Bob Williams wrote:
Not the same model, but a few months ago I bought an ASUS Zenbook UX305 for my wife. She wanted it to be dual boot, so I shrank the Win10 partition (from within Windows) and installed openSUSE Leap 42.1 alongside. No problems, nice little machine, works well. And the Win10 installation hasn't been touched since! ;-)
Bob
Thanks Bob! :-)
Did you have to jump through any UEFI hurdles? The last new system I tried this on absolutely refused to reveal it's Windows system partition(s) when booting to CD/DVD/USB in 'legacy' mode. When set to 'secure boot' mode, you could not access the CD/DVD/USB drive (not an ASUS system, btw.)
Thanks again & regards,
Carl
Hi Carl, I'm sorry, I can't remember the details. This was my first and last UEFI installation. The machine I'm typing this on is an 8 year old spinning rust machine that's still going strong. I do remember being pleasantly surprised at how easy it was. I posted here at the time, and what I said then was: "Windows 10 hides the relevant settings (security by obscurity), but searching for 'partition' got me to the partitioning tool where I was able to shrink the Windows partition. "Similarly, searching on 'uefi' got me to a wizard where I chose the option to access a USB stick. I plugged in my openSUSE 13.2 stick, and clicked the icon, whereupon the machine rebooted into the openSUSE installer, which recognised the efi option. Installation was smooth and fast." If you want to use the whole hard drive for openSUSE, I would guess that getting Windows to enable uefi, then get the YaST installer to repartition, might work, but don't quote me! Regards Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.1.15-8-default Distro: openSUSE 42.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.16