On Sun, Oct 21 12:16:33 PM Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012-10-21 18:04 (GMT+0200) Hans Witvliet composed:
I got to make a new laptop with W7 dual bootable with 12.2. Normally i would just insert the dvd and let yast shrink the windows stuff, however i wonder if this is possible:
i examined the drive and noticed that all primary partitions are already in use: sda1 200M ntfs 15% sda2 442G ntfs 7% sda3 20G ntfs 90% sda4 4g fat 73% Obviously, no media were supplied with the laptop.
So what are my options?
Use the included tool to create media from the installed system, then wipe, partition, and install sanely.
I don't agree. This is the factory partitioning done by the manufacturer. The 3rd & 4th partitions are worrisome - why a small NTFS and an extremely small FAT? This looks suspiciously like a recovery system setup. And a lot of these systems - which are rarely documented - will not permit OS recovery with any changes. If that recovery can't be used, only a retail copy of the OS will work. I'd check with the manufacturer first to see what it is doing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org