Hi,
I’m sorry if this is redundant but I want to ask you a couple of questions :
Thank you in advance for help.
As I understand it - yes
Windows must be _64 though
And the partition table must be GPT (that’s certainly true for Win 8)
You can partition your HD beforehand with gdisk from the openSUSE rescue CD
As for the rest, the guides out there apply and grub is in the dedicated efi boot partition
Great thanks for the answer. Do you have a particularity useful guide under some link or just go with what google suggests ? 
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI
see also
http://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/13.2/#general
Great thanks a lot for help. Have a happy new year
On Tue 06 Jan 2015 11:56:01 AM CST, glistwan wrote:
caf4926;2687545 Wrote:
> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI
>
> see also
> http://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/13.2/#general
Great thanks a lot for help. Have a happy new year
Hi
I manually create the partitions, then install windows via an efi usb
disk at the very end of the drive…
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 298.1G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 260M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 128M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 40G 0 part /
├─sda4 8:4 0 160G 0 part /data
├─sda5 8:5 0 8G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda6 8:6 0 89.7G 0 part
As indicated, I setup the partitions via the 13.1 rescue cd and gdisk,
install windows 7 (sda6) in uefi mode, then install openSUSE and at YaST
expert partitioner rescan the device and select the efi partition
(/boot/efi) not to format, then carry on the install.
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default
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Just a point to consider too with windows 7
It will likely need a massive amount of updating, which you should make sure includes all current service packs, before installing Linux.
Good luck, because it take an age…
On Tue 06 Jan 2015 06:36:06 PM CST, caf4926 wrote:
malcolmlewis;2687603 Wrote:
> Hi
> I manually create the partitions, then install windows via an efi usb
> disk at the very end of the drive…
>
> >
Code:> >
> lsblk
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> sda 8:0 0 298.1G 0 disk
> ├─sda1 8:1 0 260M 0 part /boot/efi
> ├─sda2 8:2 0 128M 0 part
> ├─sda3 8:3 0 40G 0 part /
> ├─sda4 8:4 0 160G 0 part /data
> ├─sda5 8:5 0 8G 0 part [SWAP]
> └─sda6 8:6 0 89.7G 0 part
>> >
> As indicated, I setup the partitions via the 13.1 rescue cd and gdisk,
> install windows 7 (sda6) in uefi mode, then install openSUSE and at
> YaST
> expert partitioner rescan the device and select the efi partition
> (/boot/efi) not to format, then carry on the install.
>
Just a point to consider too with windows 7
It will likely need a massive amount of updating, which you should make
sure includes all current service packs, before installing Linux.
Good luck, because it take an age…
LOL ain’t that the truth!!! From memory ~ 8 hours… with all the
downloading and reboots. Thankfully I gave away my HP 2000 with windows
8 to nieces and nephew that was ~24hours with recovery, update to
windows 8.1 and updates before it would let it update to windows 8.1.
I removed the ei.cfg file from the windows 7 iso image to allow any of
the four version to install dependent on the license key…
But since I don’t boot it much, that’s why at the end of the drive…
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default
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