On 3/16/2017 7:20 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > How does one put centos on a laptop? > My understanding that laptops no longer come with optical drives. > Booting from an install disk would be difficult. >> From https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops : > Preparation tasks > Repartition your harddisk > Backup your Master Boot Record (MBR) > Modifying your bootloader > > My understanding is that most laptops have at most one harddisk. > Can it really be unmounted for partitioning? DD the CentOS ISO onto a USB stick. boot from USB, format HD with anaconda, install as desired, done. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz