On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 06:05:37PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Fred Smith > <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 03:33:59PM +0100, Mário Barbosa wrote: > > >> 1) Install ntfs "support" > >> yum install -y epel-release > >> yum install -y ntfs-3g ntfsprogs > >> > >> 2) re-run the grub config gen script > >> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > >> > >> Best, > >> Mário > > > > Ah, Mario, that's exactly what I needed to know! thanks! > > > > It seems rather like a chicken-and-the-egg problem, which came first? > > you can't install ntfs-3g until you've installed the system, and it > > won't notice the windows partition(s) there until you've installed > > ntfs-3g. But it sets up the grub config at install time, so you get > > a system apparently without windows support. > > > > A newbie (which I'm not) would certainly find this confusing/disheartening. > > Ahh yes, good tip. > > I'm pretty sure dual-boot on CentOS is de-emphasized or maybe flat out > not supported, is probably why ntfs3-g isn't on the installer media. > On Fedora, that's a required based package because of explicit dual > boot support, and it's necessary because the installer uses ntfs-3g to > resize the Windows volume to make room for Fedora. So that's why it worked with F19. I sure didn't know Anaconda could resize the Windoze partition for you... I did it with gparted-live when I installed F19. As my mom used to say: "You live and learn!: -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------