Re: [CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-20 Thread wwp
Hello Ljubomir, On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:49:29 +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > 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 t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-19 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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 avoi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-19 Thread wwp
Hello John, On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:07:08 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > On 7/19/2014 2:55 PM, wwp wrote: > > nor > > shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on > > disk. > > I strongly dislike shrinking file systems in place, and prefer to backup > the whole FS, reparti

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/19/2014 2:55 PM, wwp wrote: > nor > shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on > disk. I strongly dislike shrinking file systems in place, and prefer to backup the whole FS, repartition the disk, then restore the FS to the new smaller partition. for Windows NTFS s

[CentOS] CentOS to reside near a NTFS system

2014-07-19 Thread wwp
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 CentO