Yeah! I agree you ! If you install CentOS in Windows , you firstly backup the important data to some place in case of the machine is crashed;Then you can start to install CentOS by the useful tool which called grub-for-docs. That tool is to build to grub for CentOS and Windows .You can search it by Googling. Gook Luck! And hope this can help you! On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Frank Thommen > >Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows > > > >> I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with > >> Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? > >> Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this > >> well without me doing some magic, or so? > > > >The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct > >partition for your CentOS installation :-) > > With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the > Windows-partitions. > > -- > /Sorin > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091009/264d9ae3/attachment-0004.html>