Re: Dualboot CentOS and Windows

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2009/9/29 Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
>Of Frank Thommen
>Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: Dualboot CentOS and Windows
>
>> I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with
>> Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for?
>> Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this
>> well without me doing some magic, or so?
>
>The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct
>partition for your CentOS installation :-)

usually, you need at least two partitions: one for / and one for swap. best is to setup first a small /boot partition. i'm sure somewhere there are some docs about it :)

With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the
Windows-partitions.

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/Sorin

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