On May 3, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 5/3/06, Tony Schreiner <schreian at bc.edu> wrote: >> I have a functional CentOS system on which I need to install Windows >> for dual boot. I can make some space available on a high partition. >> Can WIndows be installed on partition 8 (starting with 1)? I have >> always done it on the first partition. > > Windows will do angry things to the boot sector of the drive if it is > installed last during dual boot setup, so you'll have to use the > recovery disk if you do this. Whether windows will be happy at the end > of the disk is somewhat hardware dependent. I honestly don't know if > that would work. You might instead (if you have the ram) use vmware > and load windows in linux to sidestep the problem entirely. > > Thanks for that. I do know I will have to repair the grub boot record. I'm not sure that VMWare will work for me. The reason I need to install Windows is that I need to run the Dell Storage Manager to do some things to a (oldish) Dell disk array connected via fibre channel. Linux can mount these disks just fine, but there appears to be no way to manage the array from Linux. So I don't know if Windows in VMWare on top of Linux could do it. It might, I just don't know. It's a long story, the array was set up before me on a Windows system, which is no longer here. My other option is to move the FC card to another machine. At this point I haven't decided which is the easiest way to go. Tony Schreiner