On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic office@plnet.rs wrote:
On 01/30/2012 03:14 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use that. Has anyone used the partitioning tool that comes with 6.2 to do this? Can I have some level of confidence that it will not mess things up so that I cannot boot into Windows? if it screws up and makes Windows unbootable that would be a Very Bad Thing.
Thanks! -larry
First make backup of the MBR (some Linux software save them elsewhere on the disk.)
OK, I'll research how to do that and give it a shot.
I used CentOS 6.2 DVD to partition Windows 7 partitons, amongst all others. But take notice that regular CentOS DVD/LiveDVD has no ntfs support so you will not be able to format them with NTFS. You can however create them as FAT32 and re-format them from windows.
CentOS 6.2 DVD can also align partitions for new 4k sector HDD's
Not sure that either of these things will be an issue to me.
-larry