Jonathan Nilsson wrote:
Larry wrote:
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I didn't come here to debate VM's. I was just looking for someone to
say "Yeah, I used the CentOS partitioning it and it worked like a charm" or "I used it and it was a disaster."
sorry if i sounded cross; i am not trying to be argumentative. it's just that from my experience dual-booting has not been worth the effort unless it is truly needed for the hardware performance, and running CentOS on a laptop (depending on the model) may prove challenging to get all the hardware to work.
as for partitioning, i have not had success using any linux installer to resize an existing Windows partition. supposedly gparted on a livecd can
<snip> I've done it a few times; most recently, with my netbook (ok, it's got the Ubuntu netbook remix on it, but I'm getting annoyed enough to maybe put CentOS on - I like stability), and have never had a problem.
As I said, do the defrag, then yes, you *can* use Linux's fdisk, it's perfectly fine with a DOS MBR, and won't break anything.
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