[CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

Sun Jul 20 11:06:38 UTC 2014
wwp <subscript at free.fr>

Hello Ljubomir,


On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:49:29 +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at 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
> > 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 CentOS7 GNOME-Live on a USB
> > flashdisk and to boot it on the machine. It was either freezing at grub
> > stage (!?) or later at GDM login stage. I gave up.
> > 
> > Then I installed the CentOS6 LiveCD on the USB flashdisk, and booted in
> > on the machine. Works fine so far, but it cannot mount the Windows NTFS
> > partition (unknown partition type - no NTFS driver in the Live system?)
> > so I cannot either access the user data in the NTFS partition, nor
> > shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on
> > disk.
> > 
> > So I'm wondering, if ever I boot from a pmagic live system and succeed
> > in shrinking down the NTFS and make room for the CentOS6 install:
> > 
> >  - will the CentOS6 live system be able to install at all and allow
> >    dual boot so that it's conservative WRT the existing Windows system?
> > 
> >  - once installed, will the CentOS6 system be able to mount read-WRITE
> >    the NTFS partition (even if I have to install an alternative
> >    repository)? Read-only would be useless to us.
> > 
> >  - why not, is there a way I could get success with the CentOS7? If
> >    not, the CentOS6 is fine with me.
> > 
> > Those are the pre-requisites for me to run CentOS6 on this - ah-hum -
> > slow system and be happy with it.
> > 
> > Any though?
> > 
> 
> NTFS needs package ntfs-3g from EPEL.

ntfs-3g was what I needed, thanks a bunch!


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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