Fr David Ousley composed on 2016-11-07 15:27 (UTC-0500):
For one who only does installations infrequently: how should I go about partitioning in advance of installing openSUSE?
One URI specifically designed to answer such question: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch03s05.html.en There are many many options. One need not boot any particular OS to do so. Even Windows disk manager can do it, though you'd prefer to only to create, not format. Don't be concerned about the types Window creates. Linux installers such as openSUSE's will change them appropriately when selecting as Linux targets for formatting/mounting. I use a non-free app called DFSee http://www.dfsee.com/, which comes with separate binaries for DOS, OS/2, Windows, Linux and Mac, so it makes little difference what I have booted when I want to use it. Generally with a HD that has no existing partitions I boot Knoppix and use a Linux DFSee binary. Other options are included on the Ultimatebootcd and various distro's installation and other bootable media, e.g. parted, gparted, fdisk, sfdisk, gdisk, parted magic among them. Something else like http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html might be easy in your case by being able to run it for free from Win7. Maybe a look at http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/partitioningindex.html would be useful to you.
...When I attempt to add swap, root and home (under an extended partition), as described, then I get the warnings.
Are Windows and the "BIOS" (motherboard firmware) set to boot in UEFI mode? I don't boot anything here in UEFI mode, so can't test such scenarios. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org