An alternative approach -- if it will work. Suppose I purchase a 1
Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but
this can be changed).
Suppose I install such a drive in the target machine that has MS Win 10
on the internal hard drive, and then, during the boot (secure boot
disabled, legacy boot enabled),
boot from the SL 7.2 install DVD. Could I do the full install (I am not
worried about partitions, etc., yet -- merely for testing purposes) to
the USB drive, not touching the internal harddrive,
and, after the install, boot the machine from the external USB drive
(again, not touching the harddrive). Is this feasible? I fully
understand that an external USB drive machine will be "slower" than
a properly configured SATA internal harddrive machine -- but will this work?
Yasha Karant
On 04/02/2016 02:28 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
On 04/02/2016 01:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Other than stating that EL 7 will not work, are there any other
suggestions?
Best option is to remove the drive and put your own in for testing.
Alternatively, clone the drive with CloneZilla or if you're more
comfortable, "dd | gzip -1" and muck with it to your hearts
content...if you need to restore it to 'factory condition' just
restore your backup.
I do this with ANY new purchase...before turning the system on and
booting it up.
