Marc Chamberlin composed on 2021-12-27 22:53 (UTC-0800):
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.... Do you have Windows' "fast boot" disabled? There is no option in the BIOS (AMI Bios) configuration menus to enable or disable "fast boot" Did you reboot Windows rather than "shutting it down", which normally it doesn't really do, before beginning to attempt installation? I shut down (powered off) the laptop, then inserted the USB stick, and
Is this laptop's hardware newer than 15.3? The laptop is the HP Spectre x360 Convertible 15t-eb000, I don't know
Hi Felix, thanks for responding, I will intersperse my answers to your questions below - On 12/27/21 23:21, Felix Miata wrote: then powered up the laptop. The laptop then directly loads and starts the YaST installer. the answer to your question, how would I determine it?
Hardware lacking CSM support is likely to be too new. If so, you may need to use TW or 15.4 alpha to get needed support. What chipset and CPU is in this laptop? The CPU is the Intel Core i7-10750H. I don't know what chipset is being used, there is no mention of it in the specs on HP's website.
If you try a net install instead of "DVD" install you're likely to find out for sure whether or not your network hardware is supported. You might be able to get farther along by plugging in an ethernet cable to install, and fuss over how to get wireless to work later. I figured out that yes the wireless setup is working by looking at the log files of my dhcpd server.
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