On 07/19/2014 11:55 PM, wwp wrote: > Hello there, > > > the *old* PC (Turion 64 MT-32 800MHz, 1Gb RAM) of my gf is running > Windows XP, and I plan on installing a CentOS beside of it, allowing > her to select the OS at boot-time. Other system/OS installing options > are not retained, please avoid ;-). > > My first attempt was to install the CentOS7 GNOME-Live on a USB > flashdisk and to boot it on the machine. It was either freezing at grub > stage (!?) or later at GDM login stage. I gave up. > > Then I installed the CentOS6 LiveCD on the USB flashdisk, and booted in > on the machine. Works fine so far, but it cannot mount the Windows NTFS > partition (unknown partition type - no NTFS driver in the Live system?) > so I cannot either access the user data in the NTFS partition, nor > shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on > disk. > > So I'm wondering, if ever I boot from a pmagic live system and succeed > in shrinking down the NTFS and make room for the CentOS6 install: > > - will the CentOS6 live system be able to install at all and allow > dual boot so that it's conservative WRT the existing Windows system? > > - once installed, will the CentOS6 system be able to mount read-WRITE > the NTFS partition (even if I have to install an alternative > repository)? Read-only would be useless to us. > > - why not, is there a way I could get success with the CentOS7? If > not, the CentOS6 is fine with me. > > Those are the pre-requisites for me to run CentOS6 on this - ah-hum - > slow system and be happy with it. > > Any though? > NTFS needs package ntfs-3g from EPEL. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant