Install suse on alienware

That's how I have it set up in many computers. Unless if you have some crucial on the HDD, fresh install isn't always bad, it gives us opportunity to fix the mess we create. It is currently the only drive in my laptop. I will give it a try and see what happens. You brought up a good point about a clean install. I just want to be ready for when my new ssd arrives so I can continue my tinkering.

Yeah, unless if that hard drive has 2 identical partitions and doing something funny, it's only RAID in name Or not Page 1 of 2 1 2 Last Jump to page:. Tags for this Thread boot , dual boot , hdd , sdd , windows Bookmarks Bookmarks Digg del. All times are GMT The time now is I use the KPowersave module to control frequency scaling, etc. The screen is X and is the best screen I have ever seen on a notebook.

The install detected my video card and went out to Nvidia and downloaded the correct driver, sweeeeet! All the other hardware was setup properly without any tweeking. Alienware 17 R3. Alienware 17 R2. Alienware Alienware 15 R2. Alienware 13 R2. Alienware M14x R2. Alienware M14x. Alienware M11x R3. Alienware M17x R4. Alienware M17x R3. Alienware M17x R2. Linux has come an incredibly long way, since my time installing Ubuntu 8. Remember those sick YouTube videos with people closing windows and they would burn from the top down?

Or those videos where you could spin the desktop into a 3d cube?! I wanted to do all that then. Sure you can still do all of that now, but after many years of focus on stability and overall improvements we have the best of both worlds.

No such problems here in The improvements to the Linux desktop platform as a whole in the past 10 years is truly staggering. I will now share some of the software configuration I have completed on my machine.

Since I have not wrote a bash script, or setup ansible or equivalent at the present, this post will come with some cheeky commentary and will double as a personal documentation of sorts.

If you are a new Tumbleweed user, this will be a nice and loose setup guide for things that might interest you. If you are a user of other Linux platforms, it could also be useful for you!

Perhaps you can substitute out zypper for your package manager apt or yum, YMMV. For hard disk partitioning, I have some suggestions. While some experts may not agree with some of these choices, this is simple, solid advice I can stand behind:. Here is a breakdown of what I have configured on my machine. I have four physical drives in my case. Disk 1 and Disk 2 were setup during installation. I also have an open NFS share on my network for unimportant stuff, and simple lazy file sharing if needed.

My computer is an NFS client, the server is on another computer at home. Here is how I did my setup:. Since we are talking about hard disks here, you can also use Smart Tools to view SSD smart info, via smartmontools like this:. You can do this in YaST. This is a critical point for me, and one of the first things I do. Using the hosts file is a first step in protecting yourself from ads, adware, and bad DNS domains.