Install openSUSE and remove Windows 7

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#1

I’m not all that computer savvy so I would like to do this the correct way.

After I install openSUSE, how do I go about removing Windows 7 and everything else on the PC.

I’ve googled this but you can never tell what is legit these days.

Thanks!

#2

It would have been easier to install openSUSE and tell the installer to use the whole disk. That would have removed Windows and would have given you a nice, openSUSE only partitioning. Now “removing” Windows will give you one or more disk partitions for new usage. You can of course leave them unused, but when you want to recover that disk space you must make up your mind on how and where.

You could start with using YaST > System > Boot loader and removing the boot entry of Windows there. Then you will not see it anymore in the GRUB boot list.

#3

Thanks for the reply!

How do I do that?

#4

This is a bit difficult to explain becasue I then have to walk through an installation and I am not plannning one now.

First, I must explain tthat I never use automatic installation, thus below is based on that.

But after the first screens where you fill in several things, you get a list of the things that are going to happen. You can then click on any of those pargraphs to change them. One of the paragraphs is the partitioning. This is only a suggestion. Click on it. As said, I do not know exactly by hart, but there are a few options there like Expert and Change Partitioning. One of them leads to a new screen where you can choose one of your disks and check “use the whole disk” (or similar wording). Please try. It will then make a frsh partitioning suggestion with most probably three partitions (Swap of a few Gb, / of about 20Gb and the rest for /home).

When in doubt, ask first here. As long as you do not go beyond that long list of paragraphs that are going to happen, nothing will be done to your system and you can always bail out.

#5

OK, that makes sense.

Many thanks for the advice!

I’ll report back.

#6

I put the openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso file on a thumb drive, rebooted but Windows came up.
Burned the file onto a DVD and tried again, same result.

This is Windows 7 Enterprise.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

#7

Hi,

I don’t know why you would want to erase a windows which you already seemed to have payed for,
but that’s your choice.

With respect to the problems that you encounter:
do you know if you boot in ‘secure’ boot mode?

Then booting from USB or DVD may be disabled, by default.

#8

I do this all the time. When they would sell the system without Windows , I would of course take it. But it is imho next to impossible to get your money back on telling them that you do not need Windows. And to me it is a rather stupid thing to use Windows with the only argument that I was forced to pay for it.

#9

Thanks for the replies.

I changed the BIOS so that the first option for booting is now the USB.
That made the PC look into the USB thumb drive for an OS.

However, now I get the message:

“Error loading operating system”

I re-downloaded openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso file, copied it to the thumb drive and tried again but got the same result.

(I will research “secure boot mode”)

Thanks

#10

Saying “copy” is not precise enough. How did you copy?

#11

On 2014-03-10 09:36, hcvv wrote:
>
> ratzi;2629637 Wrote:
>>
>> I don’t know why you would want to erase a windows which you already
>> seemed to have payed for,
>> but that’s your choice.
>>
> I do this all the time. When they would sell the system without Windows
> , I would of course take it. But it is imho next to impossible to get
> your money back on telling them that you do not need Windows. And to me
> it is a rather stupid thing to use Windows with the only argument that I
> was forced to pay for it.

Same here - but I usually get the plain “home” edition, not the
“Enterprise” edition.

Sometimes, it is even more expensive to get the same machine without
Windows than with it.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

#12

I downloaded the iso file to my Desktop. Then right-clicked it and selected “Send to Drive H:”
Drive H is the removable thumb drive (flash drive).
Then I placed the thumb drive in the PC needing Linux and rebooted it.

Thanks!

#13

That sounds to me as if you did that in Windows. Sorry, but I have no idea what that does underneath.
Maybe others here can tell you how to make a bootable USB device from an ISO file on Windows.

On Linux, I would try

dd if=openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX

where of course you may need to change the name of the input file and change the X to the correct letter.

#14

That is correct.
I do not have Linux on any of my machines, only Windows.

Thanks!

#15

I thought Linux was:

  1. Faster
  2. Better supported (eg. Windows xp will no longer be supported this year)
  3. No bloatware
  4. Less prone to viruses

Please advise if this is not the case!!!

Thanks!

#16

On 2014-03-10, Epictetus <Epictetus@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> I thought Linux was:
>
> 1. Faster
> 2. Better supported (eg. Windows xp will no longer be supported this year)
> 3. No bloatware
> 4. Less prone to viruses
>
> Please advise if this is not the case!!!

  1. Incorrect. It depends on what you’re doing, but compiled assembler tends give executables running at similar speeds.
  2. Incorrect. Ask Nvidia or AMD.
  3. Correct.
  4. Correct.
#17

It is a matter of not wanting to throw away junk that you paid for :slight_smile:

You can not just copy the iso to the USB Windows does not work that way.

please follow instructions from here

http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick

#18

[quote="“hcvv,post:8,topic:98756”]

I do this all the time. When they would sell the system without Windows , I would of course take it. But it is imho next to impossible to get your money back on telling them that you do not need Windows. And to me it is a rather stupid thing to use Windows with the only argument that I was forced to pay for it.[/QUOTE]

Hi hcvv!

To me that seems to be some kind of wasting money.

Buying a new PC almost everyone seems to give a considerable tribute to MS.

The other aspect of this is that a mainstream user usually will have very few options to buy a PC that hasn’t windows pre-installed.

I assembled my current PC myself, so I had the choice.

Best wishes
Mike

#19

I’m not sure what you mean flymail.
As I understand it, updates to Microsoft Security Essentials for xp users will cease soon.

#20

Of course it is.

It is a pity and I would not do that of course if it was easy possible

Well, here you say it yourself.

Congrats, but that is not everybody’s option.