Hi, I am studying for the RHCSA Exam and wanted to install CentOS 6.4 alongside Windows 8. I got a new laptop with a processor that supports virtualization. I am planning to remove all the recovery partitions after backing up all drivers etc. on them. Lets see how it works out. Any caveats I should know about? Regards adj
On 9/20/2013 2:39 AM, amit joshi wrote:> Hi, > > I am studying for the RHCSA Exam and wanted to install CentOS 6.4 alongside Windows 8. I got a new laptop with a processor that supports virtualization. > > I am planning to remove all the recovery partitions after backing up all drivers etc. on them. Lets see how it works out. > > Any caveats I should know about? > > Regards > adjIf you have sufficient memory, I'd suggest installing VMware Player or VirtualBox on your Windows 8 installation, and installing CentOS 6.4 as a guest operating system on top of that. It's less likely that you'd accidentally corrupt your Windows 8 setup that way. Some of the virtualization options might come in handy as well, by letting you do things like rolling back to a snapshot, etc., that might help you to repeatedly try different things without risk of having to keep reinstalling CentOS for each thing you want to try. I don't hear as much about dual boot setups these days, likely because most people just run both operating systems at the same time now... -Greg
Sorry for top posting but this windows phone doesn't let me edit replies! I agree that virtualbox or VMware is an easier option, but the RHCSA exam objectives require me to have knowledge about KVM. I will be running multiple virtual instances of centos from within centos. There is this EFI partition on the hard disk. Not sure what to do with it. Also its different from the good old bios, this EFI won't let my USB drive boot! Regards, adj -----Original Message----- From: "Greg Bailey" <gbailey at lxpro.com> Sent: ?20/?09/?2013 16:13 To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual Boot Windows 8 & CentOS 6.4 On 9/20/2013 2:39 AM, amit joshi wrote:> Hi, > > I am studying for the RHCSA Exam and wanted to install CentOS 6.4 alongside Windows 8. I got a new laptop with a processor that supports virtualization. > > I am planning to remove all the recovery partitions after backing up all drivers etc. on them. Lets see how it works out. > > Any caveats I should know about? > > Regards > adjIf you have sufficient memory, I'd suggest installing VMware Player or VirtualBox on your Windows 8 installation, and installing CentOS 6.4 as a guest operating system on top of that. It's less likely that you'd accidentally corrupt your Windows 8 setup that way. Some of the virtualization options might come in handy as well, by letting you do things like rolling back to a snapshot, etc., that might help you to repeatedly try different things without risk of having to keep reinstalling CentOS for each thing you want to try. I don't hear as much about dual boot setups these days, likely because most people just run both operating systems at the same time now... -Greg _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thanks!! But where is this disable secure boot option exactly? I can't find it anywhere in my BIOS. Regards, adj -----Original Message----- From: "Xinyun Zhou" <me at xyzhou.com> Sent: ?21/?09/?2013 14:51 To: "centos at centos.org" <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual Boot Windows 8 & CentOS 6.4 On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 17:42 +0300, Amit Joshi wrote:> > I am studying for the RHCSA Exam and wanted to install CentOS 6.4 alongside Windows 8. I got a new laptop with a processor that supports virtualization. > > > > I am planning to remove all the recovery partitions after backing up all drivers etc. on them. Lets see how it works out. > > > > Any caveats I should know about?>From my experience from the RHCSA exam, all you need to do is to use theKVM, which is a pre-installed system. You will use that as your exam client (all your answer will be in the virtual machine). If you really want to boot that, I would suggest you use a external hard drive to boot CentOS, and install virtual machines in it. Be sure to disable Secure Boot. -- Xinyun Zhou _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
amit joshi wrote:> Hi, > > I am studying for the RHCSA Exam and wanted to install CentOS 6.4 alongside Windows 8. I got a new laptop with a processor that supports virtualization. > > I am planning to remove all the recovery partitions after backing up all drivers etc. on them. Lets see how it works out. > > Any caveats I should know about?I recently installed 6.4 in dual boot with windows 8, on a new modern laptop. There were initially a bunch of smallish partitions, some apparently for recovery, others for hibernate or expresscache (this laptop has a HDD with a small 24G SSD) or whatnot. IMO it's not so easy to find out what each partition is used for - although admittedly I haven't had much windows exposure since XP. So, if you want to keep your windows fully functional, rather than removing these partitions I would recommend shrinking one or more of the "real" windows partitions (C: or D: or wherever you have space). You can do that easily within win8 through the control panel. The 6.4 installer will then use that free space and all should be fine. On the laptop I worked with, disabling secure boot was a bios option, you should have it too if your laptop uses uefi. The most pain I had was finding out what the 18G partition on the SSD was used for (expresscache, which I disabled so I could remove that partition and use it for centos), and I had to put the /boot partition on the HDD otherwise grub wouldn't see it. I also put /var and /tmp (and /home of course) on the HDD, and created / for the rest on the SSD. It seems to work fine, although I'm a bit worried as to how long the ssd will last. HTH