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How to install openSUSE? Please HELP!

  • 14-02-2014 4:01pm
    #1
    Axidium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭


    Hello,

    I would like to install openSUSE on my laptop to dual boot with windows seven. So I'd like to have the option to use both at boot. No virtual machine I have downloaded openSUSE and burned it to a cd. All I need to know now is how to install it without messing up my Windows boot loader.

    Any questions welcome.

    By the way, I have asked Google and YouTube and couldn't find a way.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,074 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    First make sufficient empty space on the drive, by, if necessary, reducing the space taken by Windows.

    You should do this from within Windows, and do several reboots to ensure Windows is happy in its new, smaller environment.

    After that it is a matter of going through the install procedure I imagine, as it is with almost all Linux distros.


  • #3
    Axidium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭Axidium


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    First make sufficient empty space on the drive, by, if necessary, reducing the space taken by Windows.

    You should do this from within Windows, and do several reboots to ensure Windows is happy in its new, smaller environment.

    After that it is a matter of going through the install procedure I imagine, as it is with almost all Linux distros.

    I did this before and when it comes to the partition screen of the installation, it completely ignores the Windows partition and offers to overwrite it.


  • #4
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,074 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Axidium wrote: »
    I did this before and when it comes to the partition screen of the installation, it completely ignores the Windows partition and offers to overwrite it.

    Does it not offer the option to select 'Free Space'?


  • #5
    White Heart Loon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭White Heart Loon


    Most distros give a few options, to either use free space, shrink the Windows partition or overwrite full drive. It will not do anything until you tell it to. Why not boot it and find out


  • #6
    Stuxnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭Stuxnet


    I have dual booted Opensuse and win 7, its does everything you need no hassles.

    For simpleness, make your free space partition beforehand in windows 7, search 'diskmgmt.msc' and right click your c: or whatever partition you want to shrink, and shrink to what ever fit your needs.

    Opensuse will detect it, and let it do its thing,

    Note this will overwrite your MBR with grub2,

    Maybe make a bootloader backup with EasyBCD if your not familiar with this kind of stuff beforehand, so you can recover mbr easily if you ever need to or want to delete the linux partition and be able to boot back into windows with ease.


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