Hello there, the *old* PC (Turion 64 MT-32 800MHz, 1Gb RAM) of my gf is running Windows XP, and I plan on installing a CentOS beside of it, allowing her to select the OS at boot-time. Other system/OS installing options are not retained, please avoid ;-). My first attempt was to install the CentOS7 GNOME-Live on a USB flashdisk and to boot it on the machine. It was either freezing at grub stage (!?) or later at GDM login stage. I gave up. Then I installed the CentOS6 LiveCD on the USB flashdisk, and booted in on the machine. Works fine so far, but it cannot mount the Windows NTFS partition (unknown partition type - no NTFS driver in the Live system?) so I cannot either access the user data in the NTFS partition, nor shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on disk. So I'm wondering, if ever I boot from a pmagic live system and succeed in shrinking down the NTFS and make room for the CentOS6 install: - will the CentOS6 live system be able to install at all and allow dual boot so that it's conservative WRT the existing Windows system? - once installed, will the CentOS6 system be able to mount read-WRITE the NTFS partition (even if I have to install an alternative repository)? Read-only would be useless to us. - why not, is there a way I could get success with the CentOS7? If not, the CentOS6 is fine with me. Those are the pre-requisites for me to run CentOS6 on this - ah-hum - slow system and be happy with it. Any though? Regards, -- wwp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20140719/2eb203f4/attachment-0003.sig>
On 7/19/2014 2:55 PM, wwp wrote:> nor > shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on > disk.I strongly dislike shrinking file systems in place, and prefer to backup the whole FS, repartition the disk, then restore the FS to the new smaller partition. for Windows NTFS systems, I usually do this with Acronis True Image Home. but, I really dislike multibooting different OS's, its just a general pain. there's all sorts of gotchas, for example: do NOT let the windows system hibernate instead of fully shut down if you're going to touch NTFS with another OS or you'll likely get some hellacious file system corruptions. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
On 07/19/2014 11:55 PM, wwp wrote:> Hello there, > > > the *old* PC (Turion 64 MT-32 800MHz, 1Gb RAM) of my gf is running > Windows XP, and I plan on installing a CentOS beside of it, allowing > her to select the OS at boot-time. Other system/OS installing options > are not retained, please avoid ;-). > > My first attempt was to install the CentOS7 GNOME-Live on a USB > flashdisk and to boot it on the machine. It was either freezing at grub > stage (!?) or later at GDM login stage. I gave up. > > Then I installed the CentOS6 LiveCD on the USB flashdisk, and booted in > on the machine. Works fine so far, but it cannot mount the Windows NTFS > partition (unknown partition type - no NTFS driver in the Live system?) > so I cannot either access the user data in the NTFS partition, nor > shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on > disk. > > So I'm wondering, if ever I boot from a pmagic live system and succeed > in shrinking down the NTFS and make room for the CentOS6 install: > > - will the CentOS6 live system be able to install at all and allow > dual boot so that it's conservative WRT the existing Windows system? > > - once installed, will the CentOS6 system be able to mount read-WRITE > the NTFS partition (even if I have to install an alternative > repository)? Read-only would be useless to us. > > - why not, is there a way I could get success with the CentOS7? If > not, the CentOS6 is fine with me. > > Those are the pre-requisites for me to run CentOS6 on this - ah-hum - > slow system and be happy with it. > > Any though? >NTFS needs package ntfs-3g from EPEL. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant