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I have a touch screen dell laptop with plenty of gizmos.
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Dell Inspiron 17 7746
8Gb ram 1Tb HD
Core i5 Intel 5200U
Running Win 8.1
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I just don't know what will and what won't work.
So, is this possible?
If I reach the happy state of running Suse comfortably from usb, then I might try to install it, but in this case keep the win8 and making it dual boot.
I know this is fraught but at least I will know how well Suse runs before going there.
Yes I had seen that. I discarded it the first time as it seems quite old.
I noticed now that it has links to Leap 15.
I have a 'live' stick and can boot from it but it lives in its own world.
I used fdisk -l to see what the disks were called.
Lots of info but confusing.
I am unable to mount any obvious drive. The system suggests that Windows has them locked.
I managed to stop NetworkManager abd start wicked, then got onto the web so I think the best thing to do now, would be to get you some screen shots from fdisk. If I can.
I am unable to mount any obvious drive. The system suggests that Windows has them locked.
What filesystem is on the partitions on the drives you are unable to mount and which windows are you using? The default for windows 10 is to leave hibernation on and turn it on when you do some updates even after it has been turned off. Linux systems won't mount hibernated partitions.
Hi yancek.
it has win 8.1 on it
I do not know the file system.
win 8 is shut down before I boot from the USB.
I'm going to put information here that I get from fdisk -l
Code:
localhost:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/loop0: 773.1 MiB, 810680320 bytes, 1583360 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop1: 4.3 GiB, 4590665728 bytes, 8966144 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 1CF7E70B-908F-471B-AFD2-0C7690DC9741
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1026048 1107967 81920 40M unknown
/dev/sda3 1107968 1370111 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 1370112 2906111 1536000 750M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda5 2906112 1936490138 1933584027 922G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 1936490496 1937526783 1036288 506M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda7 1937526784 1953523119 15996336 7.6G Windows recovery environment
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.7 GiB, 3965190144 bytes, 7744512 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x6217a43c
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 64 1761279 1761216 860M 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 1761280 1791999 30720 15M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sdb3 1792000 7744511 5952512 2.9G 83 Linux
localhost:~ #
If I try to mount, say, sda5, this is what I get:
Code:
localhost:~ # mount -t auto /dev/sda5 /mnt/
Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda5': Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the 'ro' mount option.
localhost:~ #
So, now it looks like I have to find out what the hell windows is doing.
From windows there are no obvious clues how to shut the machine down in any other way than I'm doing.
So, at least I know that the system is NTFS.
If I shut Linux down, I lose the wlan configuration so I'm getting plenty of practice in areas I didn't expect.
if you do not shut down windows properly, or have hibernation on it then it marks the partitons unread and unwritible to save them in a state that hibernation can use them. turn that off, and it should be accessible, making sure you have ntfs-3g installed of course.
I do not know where you are at on your endevier to make a usb OS of OpenSuSe but did you give the scripts they have a try even?
from what it looks like all you need to do is plug in the version, when running one of them scripts, read the prerequisites first. It is on that page I posted.
Since you have now verified that your windows is hibernated, you might take a look at the microsoft site below which explains doing that.
Major updates (don't know how they define "major") will turn hibernation on again. You won't be asked if you want it nor will you be told it is being done.
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