Please help with installing OpenSuSE on a brand new ASUS X501A laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed.
This laptop does NOT have any optical drives - NO CD and NO DVD drives.
It does have two USB drives.
I also think it has UEFI.
Is OpenSuSE installation even possible on such a system?
Reqs: do not care much about keeping windows 8 on it as long as I can successfully install OpenSuSE.
Specs:
1). Intel 2.4 GHZ processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD.
2). BIOS vendor = Aptio Setup Utility from American Megatrends, Inc.
3). After hitting ESC key at start up a menu comes up. Not sure if its 100% BIOS, or 100% UEFI, or a mix.
Menu choices are: Main, Advanced, Boot, Security, Save and Exit.
4). Under Boot menu choices are: Fast Boot (disabled), Launch CSM (disabled) and Driver Option Priorities.
5). Under Driver Option Priorities choices are: Boot Option #1: [Windows Boot Manage...], Add New Boot Option, Delete Boot Option.
6). Under the top level "Security" menu the choices are (all either disabled or NOT INSTALLED): Admin password, user password,, secure boot control (disabled).
My major question is: since this laptop does not have any CD/DVD drives and I do not see the familiar BIOS choices to boot from USB what do I do now? I suspect that this UEFI thingy is involved here also - judging by what I see in the BIOS setup screens.
Does anyone know how to make this Aptio BIOS utility accept a UEFI-enabled OpenSuSE installer? In other words how do I make it look at a particular USB drive where the thumb drive with the OpenSuSE initial installer files are?
In Windows 8 the "drives" are "C" 186 GB and "D" 258 GB.
Result of "list disk" in diskpart:
HTML Code:
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
--------- ------- ---- ---- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0 GB *
In case the text formatter removes the spaces - the star character above is under the "GPT" column.
Some detailed instructions would be wonderful but any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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