On 9/20/2013 2:39 AM, amit joshi wrote: > Hi, > > I am studying for the RHCSA Exam and wanted to install CentOS 6.4 alongside Windows 8. I got a new laptop with a processor that supports virtualization. > > I am planning to remove all the recovery partitions after backing up all drivers etc. on them. Lets see how it works out. > > Any caveats I should know about? > > Regards > adj If you have sufficient memory, I'd suggest installing VMware Player or VirtualBox on your Windows 8 installation, and installing CentOS 6.4 as a guest operating system on top of that. It's less likely that you'd accidentally corrupt your Windows 8 setup that way. Some of the virtualization options might come in handy as well, by letting you do things like rolling back to a snapshot, etc., that might help you to repeatedly try different things without risk of having to keep reinstalling CentOS for each thing you want to try. I don't hear as much about dual boot setups these days, likely because most people just run both operating systems at the same time now... -Greg