<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:03 PM, hadi motamedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:motamedi24@gmail.com">motamedi24@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear All<br>
I had two x86 platform that I needed to install CentOS 5 on them. On<br>
one of them that had Windows OS pre-installed, I installed VBox and<br>
then I installed CentOS inside its VBox. On the second platform, I<br>
tried for a fresh installation of CentOS as its primary OS (I mean<br>
inserting the CentOS installation CD and rebooting the machine and<br>
following the instructions to install the CentOS). On the second<br>
platform, I want to install Windows OS again and as I don't find<br>
proper VM machine for my CentOS so I tried to put the Windows<br>
installation CD and reboot the machine but it was unsuccessful.<br>
Actually it didn't read the Windows installtion CD and just boots up<br>
from its CentOS . As I chose to 'remove all partitions on this<br>
machine' when installing the CentOS so I think I need to change its<br>
FAT to be able to re-install Windows OS. Can you please comment me<br>
back what was wrong on my second machine that I cannot re-install<br>
Windows OS on it?<br></blockquote><div><br>Hi Hadi,<br><br>I think it could be one of these things: <br><br>* Boot device priority: you should check that CDRom is the first one (it isnt that probable because you have already booted from CD at least one) <br>
* CD reader broken: you should try with another CD, to see if it works <br>* CD broken: you should try in another computer to see if it works<br><br>AFAIK should be one of those things, beacause if Windows have any error reading the disk format, it should be pointed in the install process, I mean, you don't even have to have a disk connected to '''try''' to install it<br>
<br>Regarding the VM software in Linux (desktop), you have VirtualBox and VMWare. For most things that I do, I prefer VirtualBox, because its in the repositories and much faster to install: <br><br> yum install VirtualBox <br>
<br><br>Bye,<br>Andres<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thank you<br>
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