On 06/08/2015 08:24 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:32:05PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 6/8/2015 5:21 PM, michael wright wrote:
Hi I am running windows 7 professional and the lastest centos7 x86 now if I wish to partition the hard since I have 2TB harddrive what volume would I need to set that at many thanks mike
windows 7 defaults to creating a partition on the entire disk and leaving no free unpartitioned space. that leaves you with nowhere to install anything else.
that's not hard to fix with the gparted live CD.
- boot windows, defrag the partition(s).
problem with that step is that oos does not move _locked_ files and directories. so when one goes to next steps, of shrinking, if locked directories and files are not unlocked, one of 2 things happen, shrinking can not shrink as much as needed, or locked directories and files are lost.
- shut down windows.
- boot gparted live
- in my experience the "main" windows partition is nearest the end, so using gparted, shrink it enough to leave adequate space for Centos. I won't go into how to use gparted, it's not hard, so you can surely figure it out (I did!:)
- boot windows and let it do its thing with "repairing" the disk.
such might work, but only if one has original oos install disk and recovery disk.
- run your Centos installer, being sure NOT to let it mess with your windows partition(s).
- see my other note about how to get it to dual boot with windows.
or so it is as i have found trying to set up a win7 laptop.
ymmv.