On 02/07/12 23:18, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Your computer is an ASUS. They have a bad track record with Linux, I would
> get something else if I could.
And yet my ASUS eeepc is flawless and my ASUS Motherboard on my main Box
too works so well (M2N4-SLI)
On 30/06/12 20:36, Peter1Pan wrote:
> I would like to install
> Linux on the 500 GB HDD. For what I have read this is way too much disk
> space for Linux but I want to keep the 2 OS separated completelly.
It’s fine. Not too much. You may be referring the situation where you
might just be using this HD only for both Windows and Linux. Windows
would be installed first, Linux second. But with Grub Legacy, if the
Linux install starts after 128GB, there can be issues.
Back to you. My plan would be similar to you (Should I for some unknown
reason decide to install windows at all). If windows is already
installed on the SSD, pull the cable on it and just have the 500GB SATA
drive connected. Or, if you can be absolutely sure you can set the boot
order so the SSD is second and the 500GB SATA is first, then do that. In
the installer of openSUSE, we need to see the install target(the 500GB
SATA) as sda. I would then create swap, / and /home all primary. If you
don’t want all the space dedicated to openSUSE, create a extended space
and put logical partition/s in as required.
At the install summary make sure the HD boot order settings are correct.
Do this by clicking on the ‘Booting’ section (You can edit the software
in the same way as shown here:
http://www.su2root.ukfsn.org/files/11.4_DVD_Install/30.Install_sumary.jpg )
In the Booting section
Get to the Bootloader Installation Details:
http://www.su2root.ukfsn.org/files/Bootloader%20HD%20Order/bootloader-main.png
Your 500GB drive should be first here:
http://www.su2root.ukfsn.org/files/Bootloader%20HD%20Order/bootloader-details2.png
Of course, if you decide to do the install with the SSD pulled, checking
all this isn’t necessary.
Nothing else about Booting should need changing and in the section
summary Booting you should see /dev/sda2 (/) set for target. sda2 would
be / (root) if you follow my earlier comment.
If 12.1 still doesn’t install. I think I would try 11.4 and choose kde
and consider doing a ‘dup’ to 12.1. That or wait for 12.2
Just to let you know that in the end I installed OpenSuse 12.1 successfully on my Acer Timeline 1810T which did not have any issues. It turned out that even the check installation media did mot work on my desktop which I didnt know because I had never do e this before, so thought the permanently green screen was normal. Well IT IS NOT for anyone who may read this. The media check show some text, a status bar and gives immediate feedback on its success, none of which I could see befor when trying to install to my desktop PC.
When for any reason I shoul decide to update my BIOS or to change hardware components I will try to install again and let you know which component caused the incompatibility.
For the moment I will take my first steps on my new OpenSUSE 12.1 netbook, haha!
Thanks to all for your help again.
Cheers
> For the moment I will take my first steps on my new OpenSUSE 12.1
> netbook, haha!
happy to hear you got something going…
for your desktop, you might try downloading and booting the latest
Knoppix Live CD…
i don’t know if it still does, but a few years back it had the absolute
best hardware detection and driver matching scheme–who knows, maybe
it will spark that desktop to life, in nothing flat…
you can install from the CD, or just run from the CD and elect to have
it access your drive(s) and use a portion of drive space to save
persistent configuration data, etc…
its good stuff.
–
dd
