A friend has an ASUS G75VW with Windows 8.1 installed. Does anyone have any experience shrinking the EWindows partition and getting around M$ Secure Boot and thence installing OpenSuSE (13.1 or 13.2)?
Thank you,
Lucky Leavell
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:06:02 GMT, LuckyLeavell
<LuckyLeavell@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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>A friend has an ASUS G75VW with Windows 8.1 installed. Does anyone have
>any experience shrinking the EWindows partition and getting around M$
>Secure Boot and thence installing OpenSuSE (13.1 or 13.2)?
>
>Thank you,
>Lucky Leavell
OK, as far as i know it is possible to install 12.3 or 13.1 on this UEFI
laptop. You may not need to disable secure boot. You must use the full
install DVD as it alone handles UEFI boot properly for the install. Yes
it does UEFI boot.
How big is RAM and how big is disk on the laptop?
?-)
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:06:02 +0000, LuckyLeavell wrote:
> A friend has an ASUS G75VW with Windows 8.1 installed. Does anyone have
> any experience shrinking the EWindows partition and getting around M$
> Secure Boot and thence installing OpenSuSE (13.1 or 13.2)?
Well, 13.2 isn’t out yet, so I probably wouldn’t install that in a
situation like this.
But yes, it’s pretty easy - and 8.1 at least doesn’t seem to care if
secure boot is disabled. I just went through this a couple weeks ago
with a new desktop that had 8.1 pre-installed, and it went smoothly.
One thing you will want to do, though, is disable “Fast Boot” in Windows.
Jim
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Ram is 12GB and the boot drive is a 128GB SSD with a secondary 500GB SAS drive which I use for the /home directory.
I have successfully installed 13.1 although it was the most difficult install in my 10+ years using SuSE.
Prior to the install, the SSD was wiped and Windows 7 installed. Safe boot is disabled in the BIOS. I could not get 13.1 to boot without booting off the installation DVD first. I finally gave up and reinstalled after wiping the SSD again. I tried to use LVM for partitions other than /boot but the partitioner would not cooperate if I wanted anything anything other than what it recommended. I gave up on using LVM for root, var and swap, deferring home until I was finished and then did it using command line.
I seems to be working fine now.
Thank you,
Lucky Leavell
If booting legacy it should be just like old times but if you go for a EFI boot you must be sure to boot the install media in EFI mode then be sure that there is a efi partition formatted FAT and mounted as /boot/efi. If you had not turned secure boot off you would have had to check the secure boot box.