On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Larry Martell larry.martell@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvmarko@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 31 January 2012 05:34:21 Larry Martell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ken godee ken@perfect-image.com wrote:
Maybe a little different answer than you're looking for....
But why not install VMware Workstation (free)?
The OP does not have admin rights to the Windows OS. I presume he would need it to install any piece of software (I use Virtual Box).
I can't even defrag the disk without admin rights :-(
I'm going to make one more push to get admin, and if not, just go ahead and install CentOS and see what happens.
Beware that resizing a Windows partition which has not been defrag'ed is a Bad Idea, and works only if you are lucky enough that Windows didn't use the end- portion of the partition. Maybe it will work on a freshly installed and not- ever-seriously-used Windows, but it's a gamble.
I've found that there is an automated defrag scheduled for 1:45am on Wednesdays. I probably won't be up then, but perhaps nothing will move around between then and the morning.
If it doesn't work, you're looking at data loss and corruption of the ntfs partition (fixing of the latter may require you to have admin privileges...).
If your Windows admin doesn't want to provide you with the privileges, why don't you ask him to resize the partition for you?
Yeah, I'm in a remote location (at home) and it's a huge company with centralized admin services and I'm working for a small division, but perhaps I can get them to remote in and do it. They're just not very responsive, so it's a slow process.
I was able to get temporary admin rights, and then I successfully installed CentOS and can also boot into Windows. Thanks everyone for all the info and advise. On to bigger and better things!
-larry