Hello list,
I have two drives - the first drive currently has F14 on it. The second drive is empty. If I select custom partition and only partititon and format the second drive, will CentOS install on the second and not touch the first drive?
This is using the installer from the CentOS 6.4 Live DVD.
Thanks,
On 15/10/13 13:46, Steve Clark wrote:
Hello list,
I have two drives - the first drive currently has F14 on it. The second drive is empty. If I select custom partition and only partititon and format the second drive, will CentOS install on the second and not touch the first drive?
The installer may replace/modify the bootloader configuration, so you'll need to be careful of that.
If you're unsure, I'd suggest making sure you have backups first and/or disconncting the disk containing Fedora before you install CentOS.
CentOS 6.4 and Fedora 14 are both using GRUB Legacy, so it should be OK to install CentOS along with F14. The installer should detect both operating systems and add entries in GRUB menu for them.
If the disk with Fedora is removed during the installation of CentOS, the system won't dual-boot... at least not without some GRUB tweaking.
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Tom Grace lists-in@deathbycomputers.co.ukwrote:
On 15/10/13 13:46, Steve Clark wrote:
Hello list,
I have two drives - the first drive currently has F14 on it. The second
drive is empty.
If I select custom partition and only partititon and format the second
drive, will
CentOS install on the second and not touch the first drive?
The installer may replace/modify the bootloader configuration, so you'll need to be careful of that.
If you're unsure, I'd suggest making sure you have backups first and/or disconncting the disk containing Fedora before you install CentOS. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi,
My concern is that the installer will see the F14 / and /boot partitions on the first drive and try to install there as opposed to the newly created / and /boot partitions on the second drive.
On 10/15/2013 09:03 AM, Marios Zindilis wrote:
CentOS 6.4 and Fedora 14 are both using GRUB Legacy, so it should be OK to install CentOS along with F14. The installer should detect both operating systems and add entries in GRUB menu for them.
If the disk with Fedora is removed during the installation of CentOS, the system won't dual-boot... at least not without some GRUB tweaking.
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Tom Grace lists-in@deathbycomputers.co.ukwrote:
On 15/10/13 13:46, Steve Clark wrote:
Hello list,
I have two drives - the first drive currently has F14 on it. The second
drive is empty.
If I select custom partition and only partititon and format the second
drive, will
CentOS install on the second and not touch the first drive?
The installer may replace/modify the bootloader configuration, so you'll need to be careful of that.
If you're unsure, I'd suggest making sure you have backups first and/or disconncting the disk containing Fedora before you install CentOS. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:
Hi,
My concern is that the installer will see the F14 / and /boot partitions on the first
The installer shouldn't mess with them. Unless you choose a guided disk layout that removes existing partitions or formats existing file systems ... you should be fine. But you'll want to choose the option for manual partitioning.
drive and try to install there as opposed to the newly created / and /boot partitions on the second drive.
Just unhook the second drive. It's a simple, [hopefully] quick way of avoiding a catastrophe and you don't have to back up the partitions or MBR on that disk.
Make sure your volume group names are unique [if using LVM] or that you use labels or UUIDs. When you hook that primary drive back up, the drive naming will change for the secondary drive.
On 10/15/2013 09:03 AM, Marios Zindilis wrote:
CentOS 6.4 and Fedora 14 are both using GRUB Legacy, so it should be OK
to
install CentOS along with F14. The installer should detect both operating systems and add entries in GRUB menu for them.
If the disk with Fedora is removed during the installation of CentOS, the system won't dual-boot... at least not without some GRUB tweaking.
Thanks to everyone who replied.
We manually partitioned the second drive and the install went without any problem, except that we had to say put the boot loader on the second drive. This meant we had to change the boot order in the bios to boot from the second drive first.
On 10/15/2013 12:26 PM, SilverTip257 wrote:
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:
Hi,
My concern is that the installer will see the F14 / and /boot partitions on the first
The installer shouldn't mess with them. Unless you choose a guided disk layout that removes existing partitions or formats existing file systems ... you should be fine. But you'll want to choose the option for manual partitioning.
drive and try to install there as opposed to the newly created / and /boot partitions on the second drive.
Just unhook the second drive. It's a simple, [hopefully] quick way of avoiding a catastrophe and you don't have to back up the partitions or MBR on that disk.
Make sure your volume group names are unique [if using LVM] or that you use labels or UUIDs. When you hook that primary drive back up, the drive naming will change for the secondary drive.
On 10/15/2013 09:03 AM, Marios Zindilis wrote:
CentOS 6.4 and Fedora 14 are both using GRUB Legacy, so it should be OK
to
install CentOS along with F14. The installer should detect both operating systems and add entries in GRUB menu for them.
If the disk with Fedora is removed during the installation of CentOS, the system won't dual-boot... at least not without some GRUB tweaking.
On 10/15/2013 10:03 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied.
We manually partitioned the second drive and the install went without any problem, except that we had to say put the boot loader on the second drive. This meant we had to change the boot order in the bios to boot from the second drive first.
I don't see any reason you couldn't have shared the /boot partition on the first drive, and used Grub as your dual boot.
On 10/15/2013 01:08 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 10/15/2013 10:03 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied.
We manually partitioned the second drive and the install went without any problem, except that we had to say put the boot loader on the second drive. This meant we had to change the boot order in the bios to boot from the second drive first.
I don't see any reason you couldn't have shared the /boot partition on the first drive, and used Grub as your dual boot.
We tried putting over the kernel, ramdisk, etc from the second drives /boot to the first drives /boot dir and copied the entry from the grub.conf file to the grub.conf file on the first drive - changing the root drive from root (hd0,0) to root (hd1,0) but when we tried to boot we got a message saying illegal format when trying to load the kernel. The only thing I could think of was the F14 was a 32bit system and the new CentOS was a 64 bit system. We didn't spend much time then - just changed the bios boot order.
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