[CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

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?


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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