On 12/17/2016 1:27 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2016-12-17 21:04, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 12/17/2016 10:46 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Thanks again Carlos for responding! OK I got a bit further using a USB stick, following some other suggestions I installed ImageWriter on another openSuSE system and used it to put the ISO image onto a USB stick. Then yes I figured out that I had to have the USB stick connected before I could get the BIOS to recognize it as an option for configuring the boot order. I then configured the boot order to install first from the USB stick and proceeded with the installation. Ok...
That actually got me a bit further along, and I did get pass the point where the kernel got installed and the graphical GUI's came up to handle the rest of the installation process. However I quickly hit the next snag, when asked where I want to install the new system, the partitioner is only seeing the USB stick. It does not see or present me with the ability to install the system on either the SSD drive or the hard drive that is in my laptop! So in addition to not being able to use the DVD drive, it appears the installer cannot work with either of the hard drives on my new laptop... Any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks again in advance...
(This is really surprising! I don't see any reason why my DVD and disk drives on a new laptop should be causing such an issue, isn't there standard default drivers and a standard API for these things?) I would drop to a text console (ctrl-alt-f2, f3, f4...) and run
fdisk -l
to find out what is in there.
For instance, if the disk has a traditional partition table with four primaries already, then you can not install there, till you delete at least one.
So take a photo of that screen and upload to susepaste.org, for instance. Or boot some live distro and then paste the text here.
Carlos - I am not sure exactly what to show you so I will answer with a 2 part response. First I tried to post an image on susepaste.org showing the output of fdisk -l obtained shortly after the installation process began on my laptop. However I was unsuccessful, susepaste.org seems to just hang when I tell it to create the paste... Sigh... But, as I mentioned, it only shows the USB stick, nada for the SSD and hard drive on my laptop. Second, under Windows 10 and using Cygwin to run /sbin/cfdisk.exe for each of the two drives I get the following output - Disk: /dev/sda Size: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Label: gpt, identifier: C0CC86BB-7E5B-46CC-8EB4-26E1609F0C7D Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 519923711 519921664 247.9G Microsoft basic data Free space 519923712 1953525134 1433601423 683.6G
Disk: /dev/sdb Size: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors Label: gpt, identifier: BBDDAEE1-18A2-4647-80A2-C8337801512B Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System /dev/sdb2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved /dev/sdb3 567296 253081599 252514304 120.4G Microsoft basic data Free space 253081600 499095551 246013952 117.3G /dev/sdb4 499095552 500117503 1021952 499M Windows recovery environment
as you can see, there is lots of free space on both drives. My intention is to put / on /dev/sdb (which is my SSD) in the free space there, and to put /home on /sdb/sda (which is my hard drive) -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org