I’ve been dual-booting Leap 42.2 alongside Win 10 for a few months now, and have decided to scrap Win, because:
I need the extra space that the Win partition is taking.
I’ve lost all interest using Win.
and, I’m going to setup Vmware player for a few select Win only “apps” (M$ calls them apps now, they used to be called programs).
also I dont like being forced to learn an OS. If i’m going to learn something new, i’d like to choose it.
Now, the issue:
My current HDD status:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 923647 921600 450M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2 923648 1128447 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/sda3 1128448 1161215 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 1161216 315729979 314568764 150G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 315731968 319950847 4218880 2G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 319950848 411858943 91908096 43.8G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda7 411858944 488396799 76537856 36.5G Microsoft basic data
sda1 is ‘Recovery’.
sda2 is ‘boot’.
sda3 is ‘Microsoft reserved partition’.
sda4 is ‘Win 10’.
sda5 is ‘Linux swap’.
sda6 is ‘root’.
sda7 is ‘home’.
What I would like to do is get rid of: sda1,sda3 & sda4. (delete them using Gparted Live CD).
Move sda2 & sda5 to the very beginning of the disk.
Resize sda6 & sda7.
Then Finally install Tumbleweed (yes i want to move from leap to tumbleweed) to the ‘root’ partition.
Will this work? Will the settings in ‘home’ be saved and useful in TW?
BTW: I’ve backed-up everything I need.
Or, Is there another/better approach to doing this? Thank you for reading.
I’d probably opt for a completely new install as follows…
And, use Gparted Live to do your disk and partition operations preparing for your TW install (Steps 2-3).
Verify all backed up data from Windows and anything in the LEAP /home partition can be restored easily in a Linux system. Best is if your files are uncompressed on a Linux-readable file system(NTFS? FAT32?) with completely open permissions. Inventory and make sure no data you want to preserve in your Linux system exists outside of /home, any of that will also need to be backed up.
Wipe all the partitions <except> for the /home partition (You can try to import this partition later when you install TW). Afterwards, you can inspect your disk, and you should see only the one partition containing /home, everything else should be “Free Space” (unpartitioned).
Move the partition containing your /home partition to the end of your disk. Re-size it if you wish.
Using a newly downloaded TW DVD, do a New Install.
Edit your disk/partition layout during the New Install. You should be able to modify the suggested layout, pointing the proposed /home partition to your existing only partition. If this works as expected, assuming you install the same Desktop (KDE/Plasma), everything about the Desktop should be imported into your new install.
Continue your Install, installing KDE/Plasma.
If you custom installed any applications that aren’t part of the default KDE/Plasma pattern, you’ll have to install those apps.
Everything should result in everything you’d want.
If something goes wrong, then you have your backup files which you can manually bring over, and you may need to do some manual configuration.
…in my experience this is the perfect time to start with a fresh HDD/SSD and have a perfect shiny-new experience. And have a full (bootable) backup of the old system (at least for some months, before scratching it…)
Tsu, I’ll follow your advice to the T. Thanks for the detailed breakdown. I’ve got a few more things to back up and I expect to get this done in a couple of weeks or so. Cheers.
Well, when i tried installing TW from the dvd image (on usb), it kept freezing at ‘System Probing - Searching for system files’. So I took raputin’s advice and started from scratch.
Unfortunately after rebooting from the install, it’s not taking me to the desktop. I had chose ‘kde’ and created a single user to auto-login during setup. During boot it shows me these messages:
5.036418 nouveau 000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of 800000b4 FAULT at 10eb14
IBUS ]
5.041732 nouveau 000:01:00.0: DRM: Pointer to flat panel table invalid
5.465337 nouveau 000:01:00.0: priv: GPC0: 419df4 00000000 (1a40820e)
5.465348 nouveau 000:01:00.0: priv: GPC1: 419df4 00000000 (1a40820e)
6.546511 sp5100_tco: I/O address 0x0cd6 already in use
then I see the tumbleweed logo, after which I see the kde splash screen (geeko in a light bulb) and then absolute darkness!! I can see the hdd lights going crazy for a few secs and then everything stops. There’s no mouse pointer on screen - nothing. I hit ctrl+alt+f4 and I get this:
Welcome to Opensuse Tumbleweed 20170424 - Kernel 4.10.10-1-default (tty4)
I’m able to log in and just says ‘have fun’. I don’t know where to go from there. I did try the recovery mode, but that was similar as well. Hopefully someone can help me fix this?
My advice: start a new thread with a new title in Install/Boot/Login.
As it is now, your question is in:
a thread with a title that does not cover your problem by any means;
is hidden somewhere in an existing thread that will not be visited by anybody not interested in the initial subject (as expressed in the title), but those people might be able to help you with the new problem.
You seem to forget that it is YOU that has a problem and that it is YOU that must advertise in a way that your problem comes to the attention of people that can help you.
My advice: start a new thread with a new title in Install/Boot/Login
Lol. I was indeed contemplating on whether I should start a new thread or continue here. Obviously what youre saying makes complete sense. So I’m gonna create a new thread, for this issue. Cheers.
I’ll link the new thread here. (Just in case someone sees this first).
