[CentOS] CentOS5/6 Dual Boot
m.roth at 5-cent.us
m.roth at 5-cent.usFri Jul 15 19:57:42 UTC 2011
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Camron W. Fox wrote: > Alle, > > We currently have a CentOS 5.6 x86-64 server running using about 70G of > a 500GB hardware raid partition. We'd like to install 6.0 alongside this > installation in a dual boot configuration. We tried to install using the > "Use Free Space" installation option, but the installer did not see the > 475G of unused space. > Is there any good way to do this, or is it even feasible? > Repartition first; if it's a hardware RAID, then in the firmware setup you should be able to break off part, and then make two partions: one of about 250M or so, for /boot, and the rest, larger, for the rest. Once you've done that, and the BIOS sees the partitions, you should be able to install. I have a much longer discussion at <http://24.5-cent.us/>, in the article "Upgrading Linux" that I published a few years back. mark
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