Well it’s me again. Thanks for guys helped me. I have successfully burnt the Live USB.
I am planning to install a dual system on my current laptop but my hardware is somewhat embarrassing.
I have a 60G SSD and a 500G HDD. My win7 system is on the 60G SSD and almost occupies the whole disk (To be exact, 53G, and I don’t think I can make a 20G room here).
If I install openSUSE on HDD then I should change BIOS each time but I do not need to do any operation on the existing system; and HDD will be slower than SSD anyway. Or I can consider buying a larger SSD and move the image to the new disk and later install openSUSE, but I am not so sure if I can make it.
I hope that I can get access to all the files on HDD under either system so I don’t wanna use VMware. (and I guess I may use linux a lot in the future).
Which way do u think is better? Buying a new SSD and moving the current system there then install linux, or making a new partition on HDD and install the system there?
(And btw if I shift to a larger SSD and install the two systems on the same disk, which boot loader will work? does it depend on which system I install first?)
I can’t really offer advice on whether to buy another SSD. It depends on what you are doing.
If you stay with the current disks, I would suggest trying to find space for a small partition on the SSD, say 200M or so. Use that for “/boot”. If you can set it up so that booting uses the first drive, then you should be able to avoid reconfiguring the BIOS when you switch between Windows and opensuse.
That sounds a good idea. So it means the linux system is on HDD but only /boot is on SSD? But isn’t /boot under root directory? how to move it to other disks?
