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
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