(This is an approximate translation of my initial post on the french forum. As the latter doesn't seem to be very active, I try here) Hello everybody,
I'm new to this forum (this is my first post) and on GNU/Linux, so I hope you'll be forgiving...
I bought an Asus UX31A ultrabook (it's new, but was reselled to me after less than a week of use).
My intention is to remove Windows 8 entirely and put openSUSE 12.2 in place.
My problem is that this computer has Windows 8 on it with an UEFI boot. I don't understand nothing about UEFI, but following advice from some other websites (in french) I managed to :
- disable Secure boot (so that I can boot/install something else than Windoze);
- disable UEFI Boot (they said that's to install something with BIOS/MBR instead of UEFI/GPT - I don't know what GPT is...)
- activate Launch CSM (to install my openSUSE in BIOS/MBR mode)
- and disable Fast Boot.
Now, when I insert my pendrive with openSUSE live (KDE) on it, on restart with ESC key down, I can choose "SanDisk" in the boot menu and access openSUSE in live usb.
But now, before installing openSUSE, I wonder how I must partiton my disk (256GB SSD), so that I don't end with an unusable computer : what will become of UEFI when I've deleted Windows 8 ? Which partitions I should keep, which I'm secure to drop ? Where should I install grub (or whatever bootloader is recommended... ?) ?
So you see, I'm lost...:?
The actual partitions on my disk are as follows (windows partitioning utility) :
- Partition du système EFI - 300 MB - free: 300 MB
- Partition de récupération - 600 MB - free: 600 MB
- Partition OEM - 4.00 GB - free: 4.00 GB
- Partition de récupération - 20.00 GB - free: 20.00 GB
- Data (D: Partition principale - 110.93 GB - free: 110.82 GB
- OS (C: Démarrer, Fichier d'échange, Vidage sur incident, Partition principale - 102.54 GB - free: 71.2 GB
With KDE, I obtain the following information (with one
extra partition !?):
Device
| Size
| Type
| FS Type
| Label
| Start
| End
|
| /dev/sda1 | 300.00 MB | EFI boot | FAT | SYSTEM | 0 | 38 |
| /dev/sda2 | 600.00 MB | HPFS/NTFS | NTFS | Recovery | 38 | 114 |
/dev/sda3
| 128.00 MB
| Microsoft reserved
| | | 114
| 131
|
| /dev/sda4 | 102.54 GB | HPFS/NTFS | NTFS | OS | 131 | 13517 |
| /dev/sda5 | 110.93 GB | HPFS/NTFS | NTFS | Data | 13517 | 27997 |
| /dev/sda6 | 4.00 GB | HPFS/NTFS | NTFS | IntelRST | 27997 | 28520 |
| /dev/sda7 | 20.00 GB | HPFS/NTFS | NTFS | Restore | 28520 | 31129 |
So, can I delete ALL the partitions (including the UEFI one, as GRUB or something else will boot openSUSE instead), or should I keep some of them ? What partitions do I have to create in this particular situation to have a fully fonctionning GNU/Linux openSUSE distribution on this UEFI machine ?
I know I ask many questions, but UEFI seems fairly new and there's not so much solid information about installing Linux on an UEFI machine.
I hope someone could help me ? Thanks in advance. And as we still are in January, I can wish you all a happy New Year !
Bug.
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