On May 3, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/3/06, Tony Schreiner schreian@bc.edu wrote:
I have a functional CentOS system on which I need to install Windows for dual boot. I can make some space available on a high partition. Can WIndows be installed on partition 8 (starting with 1)? I have always done it on the first partition.
Windows will do angry things to the boot sector of the drive if it is installed last during dual boot setup, so you'll have to use the recovery disk if you do this. Whether windows will be happy at the end of the disk is somewhat hardware dependent. I honestly don't know if that would work. You might instead (if you have the ram) use vmware and load windows in linux to sidestep the problem entirely.
Thanks for that. I do know I will have to repair the grub boot record.
I'm not sure that VMWare will work for me. The reason I need to install Windows is that I need to run the Dell Storage Manager to do some things to a (oldish) Dell disk array connected via fibre channel. Linux can mount these disks just fine, but there appears to be no way to manage the array from Linux. So I don't know if Windows in VMWare on top of Linux could do it. It might, I just don't know.
It's a long story, the array was set up before me on a Windows system, which is no longer here. My other option is to move the FC card to another machine. At this point I haven't decided which is the easiest way to go.
Tony Schreiner