On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09:56:18AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Michael Wright michael_j.w09@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi all I have downloaded centos and burn the iso file every time I install centos it deletes my windows 7 what am I doing wrong mike
This lacks sufficient detail to answer your question, I can only speculate that somehow you're telling the installer to delete the Windows 7 installation.
Since CentOS install media doesn't include ntfsprogs (I haven't checked if 7.1 does), it's not possible to shrink NTFS in the CentOS installer. You'd have to do the shrink in Windows, and then Anaconda will install by default into the resulting free space.
unfortunately, even having done that, Anaconda/Grub2 will not create a dual-boot setup because the default installs do not include ntfs-3g or ntfsprogs. I've posted a recipe before for making a grub2 dual-boot setup AFTER the installation, I can do it again if anyone needs it, but otherwise won't clutter up the list with another copy of it .