Re: installing centos with oos ntfs format drives

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hello john,

On 10/01/2013 10:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 10/1/2013 8:00 PM, g wrote:
>> i am going to run a fresh install of centos 6.4 and want to mount 3
>> partitions of oos that are formatted as ntfs in an oem installed box.
>>
>> if during install, i set up partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, and
>> /dev/sdb1 as ntfs, will install install ntfs software or will i have
>> to select it later on in installation?
>>
>> also, is it better to mount them under /mnt to keep /media clean?
>
> what is "oos" ?

apologies. failed to insert [msos]

> you cannot install CentOS on a NTFS volume. use ext3 or ext4 for the
> system volumes.

not wanting to install to ntfs. the box is an hp with ntfs for oos [msos].

i intend to reformat centos partitions as ext4.

> to install the ntfs support and tools, you will first need to add the
> EPEL package repository, then
>
> # yum install *ntfs-3g ntfsprogs*

which answers all 3 questions for install.

thank you.

-- 

peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

tc.hago.

g
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