How install OpenSUSE on a Tablet?

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Hi,
I’ve a Tabled with SO Android 2.
I’d install OpenSUSE on it. Is it possible?
How I do?
Excuse me for my bad English.
Thank you in advance.

2

You can install openSUSE using a usb drive, but you’ll want to add Plasma Active repositories. You may also need some additional software. Pandaboard, crystalsomethingorother.

3

Thank you.
Where I find a step by step guide?

4

Right here; http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Installation

Google is your friend. :wink:

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On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:06:03 +0000, giuliop wrote:

> Hi,
> I’ve a Tabled with SO Android 2.
> I’d install OpenSUSE on it. Is it possible?
> How I do?
> Excuse me for my bad English.
> Thank you in advance.

http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-reference/
cha.tablet.html is probably your best starting place.

Jim

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6

The LinuxFormat review of installing Linux distros on tablets rated openSUSE very highly but said you had to activate the Tablet PC pattern in YaST Software Management to get the full benefit.

7

ok.
Thank you!

8

Basic steps

Determine whether your tablet has a regular hard drive like a laptop or desktop. If a HDD or SSD exists, then it shouldn’t be too different than a regular install.

But, most tablets don’t have a hard drive, they have shared memory that is used both for storage and running apps. In this case you have to determine how to root your device, then run a special utility to backup your existing factory image and flash a new file system with an OS like openSUSE pre-loaded on it.

Recommend researching your specific tablet hardware and searching XDA Developer info, for some hardware an openSUSE SDB article may already exist.

HTH,
TSU