Camron W. Fox wrote: > Alle, > > We currently have a CentOS 5.6 x86-64 server running using about 70G of > a 500GB hardware raid partition. We'd like to install 6.0 alongside this > installation in a dual boot configuration. We tried to install using the > "Use Free Space" installation option, but the installer did not see the > 475G of unused space. > Is there any good way to do this, or is it even feasible? > Repartition first; if it's a hardware RAID, then in the firmware setup you should be able to break off part, and then make two partions: one of about 250M or so, for /boot, and the rest, larger, for the rest. Once you've done that, and the BIOS sees the partitions, you should be able to install. I have a much longer discussion at <http://24.5-cent.us/>, in the article "Upgrading Linux" that I published a few years back. mark