Obviously this system comes with Windows 8.1, which I did not want to drop and with EFI, if that's the right term. My intention was to leave 50 GB to Windows and use the rest for openSUSE. I used a USB stick with Beta1 to do the initial installation. I changed the BIOS to start from a USB stick. The first problem was that I could not make a connection using WiFi. It complains that the packages iw and wpa_supplicant are not installed and apparently these packages are not on the USB stick (in the iso-file). So I started without a network connection and accepted the offer to leave about 150 GB to Windows and to a Windows restore system. The boot system on the USB stick does not offer the possibility to boot from the real hard disk. So after the installation I had to remove the USB stick before I could boot Linux. But first I had to change the BIOS to first try to boot from USB, second from the disk and a third possibility from the Windows Boot Manager. So at first I ended up in Windows. Maybe I did exit Windows too early, I don't recall to have seen a warning. After that I started a new installation removing all the Linux partitions and tried to shrink the main Windows partition down to the 50 GB like I wanted. I got a warning that the file system on it, NTFS, was corrupt. So I went back to Windows and had to restore Windows 8.1 completely, using the restore system. I could have chosen to leave any user data intact. During some exploration of Windows I found a feature to shrink the main windows partition so I made it 50 GB. My next installation removed all earlier Linux partitions and I managed to make the partitioning like I wanted it to be. Two 20 GB system partitions with Brtfs and two 20 GB home partitions with XFS for two versions of openSUSE next to each other. Next to that I have a large partition with XFS where users have their permanent data which is not OS version dependent. In the users home folders symbolic links are used to access this data. I got a warning about subvolumes not being correct, but I did not understand the meaning. Later I found out this was about the home folder being a subvolume on a Btrfs partition and also a folder on its own partition. The concept of subvolumes is new to me and now I realize you need to know about it to do a proper partitioning of your disk. Finally I got a system to boot. All goes well till I have the KDE splash screen showing the first of 5 icons on it. After that the screen blanks. After some time the background picture of the KDE desktop is shown, but when I touch a key on the keyboard or move the mouse, the screen blanks again. I tried also running KDE Live, but I got the same behavior. So it seems my graphics card, an Intel HD Graphics is not properly supported. Any suggestions? -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org