Just installed open suse onto a laptop that previously had windows 7 installed. I deleted the windows partition during the install but I still get the option to boot into windows at startup. Also in opensuse my hdd size is showing as 116 gb even though it’s a 250gb drive so a load of space is missing.
I want to remove windows completely from this machine and just have a single partition for opensuse. Please how is this possible?
At some point during the install, a partitioning proposal is done. That is most probaly not the one you want. Click around there a bit. Maybe you should go Expert mode there first. But somewhere you can choose: Use the whole disk (or similart wording). Then the installer will make a new partitioning proposal that will ignore everything that is om the disk and will include a Swap, root and /home partition. The latter taking all that is left on the disk after taking of a decent Swap and root partition. All else will be wiped and no dual boot will be created.
I skipped more or less over this remark from you. My idea is that you want openSUSE as the one and only system on that machine. And I (and Carlos) showed you how to do this.
I can not fit this in with your “a single partition” idea. Why would you want that? It is possible, but quite unusual. The installation default is three (as I mentioned above) and that is a good default. You realy must have good reasons to deviate from that.
> I can not fit this in with your “a single partition” idea. Why would
> you want that? It is possible, but quite unusual. The installation
> default is three (as I mentioned above) and that is a good default. You
> realy must have good reasons to deviate from that.
And I would propose one extra partition, about 10 GiB, for a test
partition. There I test the next distribution.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2012-06-19 16:06, hcvv wrote:
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> I would not bother beginners with those fineries. That is waht II called
> above “good reasons”. But then you should realy know how to handle that.
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> You may think different of course.
You are right, of course: for a beginner it is excessive. But people learn,
with time; then repartitioning becomes difficult.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)