On May 3, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 5/3/06, Tony Schreiner <schreian@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have a functional CentOS system on which I need to install Windows
>> for dual boot. I can make some space available on a high partition.
>> Can WIndows be installed on partition 8 (starting with 1)? I have
>> always done it on the first partition.
>
> Windows will do angry things to the boot sector of the drive if it is
> installed last during dual boot setup, so you'll have to use the
> recovery disk if you do this. Whether windows will be happy at the end
> of the disk is somewhat hardware dependent. I honestly don't know if
> that would work. You might instead (if you have the ram) use vmware
> and load windows in linux to sidestep the problem entirely.
>
>
Thanks for that. I do know I will have to repair the grub boot record.
I'm not sure that VMWare will work for me. The reason I need to
install Windows is that I need to run the Dell Storage Manager to do
some things to a (oldish) Dell disk array connected via fibre
channel. Linux can mount these disks just fine, but there appears to
be no way to manage the array from Linux. So I don't know if Windows
in VMWare on top of Linux could do it. It might, I just don't know.
It's a long story, the array was set up before me on a Windows
system, which is no longer here. My other option is to move the FC
card to another machine. At this point I haven't decided which is the
easiest way to go.
Tony Schreiner
