Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
Yeah! I agree you ! If you install CentOS in Windows , you firstly backup the important data to some place in case of the machine is crashed;Then you can start to install CentOS by the useful tool which called grub-for-docs. That tool is to build to grub for CentOS and Windows .You can search it by Googling. Gook Luck! And hope this can help you! On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.sewrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Thommen Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct partition for your CentOS installation :-) With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the Windows-partitions. -- /Sorin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
2009/9/29 Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Thommen Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct partition for your CentOS installation :-) usually, you need at least two partitions: one for / and one for swap. best is to setup first a small /boot partition. i'm sure somewhere there are some docs about it :) snip I *STRONGLY* urge you to make /home, and maybe /opt, separate partitions. That way, when you upgrade, and it *REALLY* wants to format /, you can. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
frank.brodb...@klingel.de wrote: Hi, I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct partition for your CentOS installation :-) Cheers frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL Heidelberg frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de - +49 6221 387 8353 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Thommen Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct partition for your CentOS installation :-) With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the Windows-partitions. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
2009/9/29 Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Thommen Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct partition for your CentOS installation :-) usually, you need at least two partitions: one for / and one for swap. best is to setup first a small /boot partition. i'm sure somewhere there are some docs about it :) With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the Windows-partitions. -- /Sorin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Linux counter #213090 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct partition for your CentOS installation :-) usually, you need at least two partitions: one for / and one for swap. best is to setup first a small /boot partition. i'm sure somewhere there are some docs about it :) You can do that from within the installer...or just let the installer create a default layout. frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL Heidelberg frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de - +49 6221 387 8353 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
frank.brodb...@klingel.de wrote on 09/29/2009 09:12 AM: Hi, I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this well without me doing some magic, or so? This should be no problem as long as you take the installer defaults, or are at least careful not to let Anaconda use the Windows partition. A GRUB menu entry should automatically be created to allow you to boot the Windows partition. I usually change the label from the default, which is something like Other, to XP or Windows and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf after firstboot to comment hiddenmenu and perhaps increase the default timeout. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
