On 29/12/2021 01.15, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi Carlos, and thank you also for taking the time to reply to me. I will intersperse my replies to your questions below.....
On 12/28/21 03:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 28/12/2021 07.53, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hello - I have an HP Spectre laptop that came with Windows 10 installed on it. It has a 1Tb SSD drive with almost 800Gb of unallocated space. I want to install OpenSuSE 15.3 x64 on this laptop as part of a dual boot system. I have done this many times in the past on other desktops and laptops but this time I am running into a couple of unexpected problems that is preventing the installation. I created an UEFI USB installation disk from the ISO file that I downloaded from the OpenSuSE downloads website.
How exactly did you create it?
I downloaded the "Offline image" for Intel or AMD 64-bit desktops, laptops, and servers (x86_64) from the website at https://get.opensuse.org/leap/ Next I used SuSE Studio Imagewriter to transfer the .iso file to a 64GB USB stick.
Ok, that's good. But try to find smaller sticks, 8 GB is more than enough :-)
In the BIOS I turned off "Secure Boot" and set the boot order to allow booting first from USB devices. I did not have to choose whether to use "Legacy Booting" as there is no option in the BIOS for it.
Why turn off secure boot? Windows will complain, and openSUSE should install fine with it. That was a suggestion I found from my Google searches in looking for a solution to this problem. I re-enabled it but it made no difference.
Hum. If you intend to use Windows at some point in time, don't turn off secure boot.
You did not tell Windows to reduce its disk occupation first? It is usually best. I am not sure what you mean or how to go about doing this step. Could you shed a bit more light on what you want me to do? Are you asking me to turn on disk compression or reduce it's partition size or something else?
I mean use Windows itself to reduce its own partition size to make size for the Linux installation. This is easier if done before doing anything else with Windows.
The installation of OpenSuSE starts off OK and I had no apparent problem with setting up the network WiFi connection. The installation process does not allow me to manually test and/or check to see if the network really got set up OK.
Yes, there is a way. There is a combination of keys to start an xterm on the graphical system of the installation. ctrl-alt-x, sihift-alt-x, some combo involving x. I tried it recently, it works, but there is a delay and did not locate the exact key combo. You can then run arbitrary commands there. Or simply type ctrl-alt-f1..f9 and find a working console.
ah, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:YaST_tricks No worries, I used a different trick to figure out whether the WiFi connection is working, it is.... Ya gotta love secret incantations, like 'xyzzy' or 'plugh'. If you go back far enough in computers, you will know about the reference I made. ;-)
Doesn't ring a bell :-? Ah, found it - never played that one. :-D I did not like them much, because to the difficulty of the game itself there was the addition of finding the correct wording in English. Pals turned to me to tell them what to type, but I did not know. I spoke better English than them, but not gamesse :-p
The first problem occurs when the installation process gets to where it is attempting to read the list of Online Repositories. Here I get a warning message "Unable to download list of repositories or no repositories defined." No reason why is given and all I can do about it is to click the OK button and move on. Maybe the WiFi network connection is not working after all? I dunno how to check it at this point in the installation process. Sigh...
This problem has gone away for some reason, I am no longer getting this error and I am able to download and install the repositories now.
Ah, good, so the problem is solved, then? ...
The Windows partition may be encrypted; in a half way state waiting for you to create the password, but it makes reading it from Linux impossible. I forget the exact name, I should have notes somewhere... Or emails here.
bitlocker is the name of the thing :-(
I searched around for bitlocker in the Windows 10 OS installed on my laptop. Nearest I can grok this thing, it appears that bitlocker is not turned on and Windoz is whining and suggesting that I should turn it on for Drive C: This is the way it came from the factory, I have never touched the settings for bitlocker, not knowing what the costs/benefits are....
Read the mail thread I pointed you to before, all I know is explained there. Start by finding the partition table and compare with mine in the first post. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)