Hello there,
the *old* PC (Turion 64 MT-32 800MHz, 1Gb RAM) of my gf is running Windows XP, and I plan on installing a CentOS beside of it, allowing her to select the OS at boot-time. Other system/OS installing options are not retained, please avoid ;-).
My first attempt was to install the CentOS7 GNOME-Live on a USB flashdisk and to boot it on the machine. It was either freezing at grub stage (!?) or later at GDM login stage. I gave up.
Then I installed the CentOS6 LiveCD on the USB flashdisk, and booted in on the machine. Works fine so far, but it cannot mount the Windows NTFS partition (unknown partition type - no NTFS driver in the Live system?) so I cannot either access the user data in the NTFS partition, nor shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on disk.
So I'm wondering, if ever I boot from a pmagic live system and succeed in shrinking down the NTFS and make room for the CentOS6 install:
- will the CentOS6 live system be able to install at all and allow dual boot so that it's conservative WRT the existing Windows system?
- once installed, will the CentOS6 system be able to mount read-WRITE the NTFS partition (even if I have to install an alternative repository)? Read-only would be useless to us.
- why not, is there a way I could get success with the CentOS7? If not, the CentOS6 is fine with me.
Those are the pre-requisites for me to run CentOS6 on this - ah-hum - slow system and be happy with it.
Any though?
Regards,
On 7/19/2014 2:55 PM, wwp wrote:
nor shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on disk.
I strongly dislike shrinking file systems in place, and prefer to backup the whole FS, repartition the disk, then restore the FS to the new smaller partition. for Windows NTFS systems, I usually do this with Acronis True Image Home.
but, I really dislike multibooting different OS's, its just a general pain. there's all sorts of gotchas, for example: do NOT let the windows system hibernate instead of fully shut down if you're going to touch NTFS with another OS or you'll likely get some hellacious file system corruptions.
Hello John,
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:07:08 -0700 John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 7/19/2014 2:55 PM, wwp wrote:
nor shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on disk.
I strongly dislike shrinking file systems in place, and prefer to backup the whole FS, repartition the disk, then restore the FS to the new smaller partition. for Windows NTFS systems, I usually do this with Acronis True Image Home.
but, I really dislike multibooting different OS's, its just a general pain. there's all sorts of gotchas, for example: do NOT let the windows system hibernate instead of fully shut down if you're going to touch NTFS with another OS or you'll likely get some hellacious file system corruptions.
Well, to my (pretty long) experience in computers (though I'm still asking for advice), I quite never met any of the points you're mentioning, with dual boots and shrinking system FS's. Anyhow, accepting your experience and thanking you for sharing it, I don't find in you reply any answer to my question ;-).
Regards,
On 07/19/2014 11:55 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
the *old* PC (Turion 64 MT-32 800MHz, 1Gb RAM) of my gf is running Windows XP, and I plan on installing a CentOS beside of it, allowing her to select the OS at boot-time. Other system/OS installing options are not retained, please avoid ;-).
My first attempt was to install the CentOS7 GNOME-Live on a USB flashdisk and to boot it on the machine. It was either freezing at grub stage (!?) or later at GDM login stage. I gave up.
Then I installed the CentOS6 LiveCD on the USB flashdisk, and booted in on the machine. Works fine so far, but it cannot mount the Windows NTFS partition (unknown partition type - no NTFS driver in the Live system?) so I cannot either access the user data in the NTFS partition, nor shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on disk.
So I'm wondering, if ever I boot from a pmagic live system and succeed in shrinking down the NTFS and make room for the CentOS6 install:
will the CentOS6 live system be able to install at all and allow dual boot so that it's conservative WRT the existing Windows system?
once installed, will the CentOS6 system be able to mount read-WRITE the NTFS partition (even if I have to install an alternative repository)? Read-only would be useless to us.
why not, is there a way I could get success with the CentOS7? If not, the CentOS6 is fine with me.
Those are the pre-requisites for me to run CentOS6 on this - ah-hum - slow system and be happy with it.
Any though?
NTFS needs package ntfs-3g from EPEL.
Hello Ljubomir,
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:49:29 +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos@plnet.rs wrote:
On 07/19/2014 11:55 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
the *old* PC (Turion 64 MT-32 800MHz, 1Gb RAM) of my gf is running Windows XP, and I plan on installing a CentOS beside of it, allowing her to select the OS at boot-time. Other system/OS installing options are not retained, please avoid ;-).
My first attempt was to install the CentOS7 GNOME-Live on a USB flashdisk and to boot it on the machine. It was either freezing at grub stage (!?) or later at GDM login stage. I gave up.
Then I installed the CentOS6 LiveCD on the USB flashdisk, and booted in on the machine. Works fine so far, but it cannot mount the Windows NTFS partition (unknown partition type - no NTFS driver in the Live system?) so I cannot either access the user data in the NTFS partition, nor shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on disk.
So I'm wondering, if ever I boot from a pmagic live system and succeed in shrinking down the NTFS and make room for the CentOS6 install:
will the CentOS6 live system be able to install at all and allow dual boot so that it's conservative WRT the existing Windows system?
once installed, will the CentOS6 system be able to mount read-WRITE the NTFS partition (even if I have to install an alternative repository)? Read-only would be useless to us.
why not, is there a way I could get success with the CentOS7? If not, the CentOS6 is fine with me.
Those are the pre-requisites for me to run CentOS6 on this - ah-hum - slow system and be happy with it.
Any though?
NTFS needs package ntfs-3g from EPEL.
ntfs-3g was what I needed, thanks a bunch!
Regards,
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John R Pierce -
Ljubomir Ljubojevic -
wwp