On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09:56:18AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Michael Wright > <michael_j.w09 at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all I have downloaded centos and burn the iso file every time I install centos it deletes my windows 7 what am I doing wrong mike > > This lacks sufficient detail to answer your question, I can only > speculate that somehow you're telling the installer to delete the > Windows 7 installation. > > Since CentOS install media doesn't include ntfsprogs (I haven't > checked if 7.1 does), it's not possible to shrink NTFS in the CentOS > installer. You'd have to do the shrink in Windows, and then Anaconda > will install by default into the resulting free space.unfortunately, even having done that, Anaconda/Grub2 will not create a dual-boot setup because the default installs do not include ntfs-3g or ntfsprogs. I've posted a recipe before for making a grub2 dual-boot setup AFTER the installation, I can do it again if anyone needs it, but otherwise won't clutter up the list with another copy of it . -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:> unfortunately, even having done that, Anaconda/Grub2 will not create > a dual-boot setup because the default installs do not include > ntfs-3g or ntfsprogs. I've posted a recipe before for making > a grub2 dual-boot setup AFTER the installation, I can do it again > if anyone needs it, but otherwise won't clutter up the list with > another copy of it .Right. So basically yum install ntfsprogs and then grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg assuming this is a system with BIOS firmware. My understanding is CentOS doesn't really support dual-boot anyway, whereas Fedora does. -- Chris Murphy
> On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:20, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote: > > My understanding is CentOS doesn't really support dual-boot anyway, > whereas Fedora does.Nope. CentOS 5, 6 and 7 all support dual-boot. -- Jonathan Billings
Am 01.07.2015 um 18:20 schrieb Chris Murphy:> Right. So basically yum install ntfsprogs and then grub2-mkconfig -o > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg assuming this is a system with BIOS firmware. My > understanding is CentOS doesn't really support dual-boot anyway, > whereas Fedora does.My experience is different: my system previously comes with Windows-7, which I shrinked and installed CentOS-6 in parallel, where the installer created an entry to start windows. Later when CentOS-7 comes out, I replaced Windows by Centos-7. After installation, the Grub2 boot menu included entries to start CenOS-6. The only problem (not really) is that a kernel update in CentOS-6 does not update the boot menu, I must boot CentOS-7 and rebuild it there. __ Gabriella