Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-02-02 Thread Larry Martell
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 31 January 2012 05:34:21 Larry Martell wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30,

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ken godee k...@perfect-image.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martelllarry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le mar 31 jan 2012 05:34:21 CET, Larry Martell a écrit: ... I can't even defrag the disk without admin rights :-( I'm going to make one more push to get admin, and if not, just go ahead and install CentOS and see what happens. You can check if there is enough available disk space without

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 31 January 2012 05:34:21 Larry Martell wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ken godee k...@perfect-image.com wrote: Maybe a little different answer than you're looking for But why not install VMware

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Larry Martell
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 31 January 2012 05:34:21 Larry Martell wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ken godee k...@perfect-image.com wrote: Maybe a little

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/31/2012 03:21 PM, Larry Martell wrote: I've found that there is an automated defrag scheduled for 1:45am on Wednesdays. I probably won't be up then, but perhaps nothing will move around between then and the morning. Just leave laptop in power and on during the night, or, if you have

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-31 Thread John Doe
From: Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com On Tuesday 31 January 2012 05:34:21 Larry Martell wrote: I can't even defrag the disk without admin rights :-( I'm going to make one more push to get admin, and if not, just go ahead and install CentOS and see what happens. Beware that resizing a

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-31 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le mar 31 jan 2012 07:14:25 CET, John Doe a écrit: From: Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com On Tuesday 31 January 2012 05:34:21 Larry Martell wrote: I can't even defrag the disk without admin rights :-( I'm going to make one more push to get admin, and if not, just go ahead and

[CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use that. Has anyone used the partitioning tool that comes with 6.2 to do this? Can I have

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/30/2012 03:14 PM, Larry Martell wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use that. Has anyone used the partitioning

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use that.

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Ken godee
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martelllarry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use that.

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: On 01/30/2012 03:14 PM, Larry Martell wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Ken godee k...@perfect-image.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martelllarry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: If you have space somewhere to save a backup, you can boot a clonezilla-live CD and do a disk-image copy that will save your current partitioning and content.  It can connect to the image storage via nfs, windows

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Jonathan Nilsson
Maybe a little different answer than you're looking for But why not install VMware Workstation (free)? Unless there's some specific reason, now a days, me personally, I wouldn't do it any other way. That is not what my client has asked me to do. They want a dual boot

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: Maybe a little different answer than you're looking for But why not install VMware Workstation (free)? Unless there's some specific reason, now a days, me personally, I wouldn't do it any other way.

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I know, but they (and I) want my environment to match their production deployment, and that will not be using a VM. If you can tell the difference from inside the environment, you did something wrong. --

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Jonathan Nilsson
Yeah, I know, but they (and I) want my environment to match their production deployment, and that will not be using a VM. do they all run with dual-booting Windows/CentOS systems? is their environment filled with laptops running CentOS? If you can tell the difference from inside the

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: Yeah, I know, but they (and I) want my environment to match their production deployment, and that will not be using a VM. do they all run with dual-booting Windows/CentOS systems? is their environment filled with

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't come here to debate VM's. I was just looking for someone to say Yeah, I used the CentOS partitioning it and it worked like a charm or I used it and it was a disaster. Can't help there - I did mine long ago,

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Jonathan Nilsson
do they all run with dual-booting Windows/CentOS systems? is their environment filled with laptops running CentOS? This is a new system, but yes, it will be deployed on laptops running CentOS. ah, ok. so you need to get centos working on the bare-metal hardware of the laptop. VMs will not

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/30/2012 08:19 PM, Larry Martell wrote: do they all run with dual-booting Windows/CentOS systems? is their environment filled with laptops running CentOS? This is a new system, but yes, it will be deployed on laptops running CentOS. My suggestion, and I am assuming you are not very

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/30/2012 08:45 PM, Jonathan Nilsson wrote: as for partitioning, i have not had success using any linux installer to resize an existing Windows partition. supposedly gparted on a livecd can do this (though it has not worked for me when i tried it, possibly because i didn't defrag windows

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: You can Ghost the partition with the software that allows to reduce the partition when getting it back, so you ghost, delete and rectreate the partitions, and get the ghosted partition back in smaller space. Yes, that

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/30/2012 10:35 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevicoff...@plnet.rs wrote: You can Ghost the partition with the software that allows to reduce the partition when getting it back, so you ghost, delete and rectreate the partitions, and get the

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread m . roth
Jonathan Nilsson wrote: Larry wrote: snip I didn't come here to debate VM's. I was just looking for someone to say Yeah, I used the CentOS partitioning it and it worked like a charm or I used it and it was a disaster. sorry if i sounded cross; i am not trying to be argumentative. it's just

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/30/12 1:22 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: You can Ghost the partition with the software that allows to reduce the partition when getting it back, so you ghost, delete and rectreate the partitions, and get the ghosted partition back in smaller space. I usually use Acronis TrueImage ($$)

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: do they all run with dual-booting Windows/CentOS systems? is their environment filled with laptops running CentOS? This is a new system, but yes, it will be deployed on laptops running CentOS. ah, ok. so you need

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: On 01/30/2012 08:19 PM, Larry Martell wrote: do they all run with dual-booting Windows/CentOS systems? is their  environment filled with laptops running CentOS? This is a new system, but yes, it will be deployed on

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Monday 30 January 2012, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use that. Has

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Arun Khan
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ken godee k...@perfect-image.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry Martelllarry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Arun Khan
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use that.

Re: [CentOS] confidence in partitioning tool (6.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Tuesday 31 January 2012, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: I realigned the partitions with Gparted. Windows 7 complained the FS needed to repaired. I popped in the Win 7 DVD, repaired it's FS and it booted fine. Oh, yes, I wanted to mention this: don't ask GParted to align the Windows