On Tueday, 20 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" rwalker@medallion.com wrote: <snip>
I should have asked how big your setup was currently.
The HD is only 40 GB on my box, a low end Dell Dimension 2400 (2.6 GHz Celeron) I won in a raffle. After I get this one up and running, I am going to switch wife and daughter's boxes, and redo them completely. Wife's current box has an 80 GB HD, which will give me a lot more room to experiment with VMware Server, which is something I want to learn about and use, until we get a box that is Xen capable..
Oh well, yes the Windows apps take a while to install, been there myself.
Been there and done that? I have huge appreciation, for the large number of packages that come from Upstream and are included in CentOS and the speed with which I can install the OS and so much stuff. And, for an example, the tools included, that would permit me to repair the WinXP problem, from the Linux side of the box, as you explained. To say nothing of my appreciation for the Developers of CentOS and the others who make this such a wonderful mailing list. I'm an old retired Assembly Language programmer (started with IBM 360/65) and I never worked with Unix, so this is a brand new world for me and one that I regret I did not work in, professionally.
If I were to re-do the whole drive, not knowing it's size I might do
it as such: <snip>
You can then install Windows from within vmware by making /dev/sdc a
raw disk for vmware. Once it's installed you could add an entry in
grub to boot into it.
I'm going to RTFM and I think this time around, make it dual boot again and also try to install Windows within VMware, as you explain. Next time, I will hopefully have enough confidence in my ability to do this properly, that I will only install CentOS and then install Windows within VMware. Thanks much! Lanny