Re: [CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-20 Thread wwp
Hello Ljubomir, On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:49:29 +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: 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

[CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-19 Thread wwp
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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-19 Thread John R Pierce
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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-19 Thread wwp
Hello John, On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:07:08 -0700 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-19 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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 ;-).