Install centos 5.3 on a hard disk in Windows

1, open the image file CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso (My centos image file in D [must be FAT32 format] disk), find the isolinux directory, right-click to extract to the specified folder ", select D disk, OK. In the D:/isolinux directory, only the initrd. IMG and vmlinuz files are retained. delete all the other files. (If other files are retained, installation and exit may occur.) [note] My d drive is in NTFS format, and the image file cannot be found before installation. Therefore, the partition tool Norton partitionmagic is used to convert the D disk to the FAT32 format. 2. Run "C:/boot. ini" with the win + r key and press Enter. My boot. the content of the INI file is as follows: [boot loader] timeout = 30 default = multi (0) disk (0) RDISK (0) Partition (1)/Windows [operating systems] multi (0) disk (0) RDISK (0) Partition (1)/Windows = "Microsoft Windows XP Professional"/noexecute = optin/fastdetect Add the following line at the end of the file, save and exit. C:/grldr = "Install centos Linux" 3. Download grub4dos and decompress the file to the root directory of the C drive without folders. (Grub4dos-0.4.4-2009-01-11.zip) 4. Copy the grldr under this directory to the root directory 5. Run "C:/menu. lst ". (Some may be C:/GRUB/menu. LST), add the following at the end of the file: (put my v image file on disk D, that is,/dev/hda5) Title install centos linuxroot (hd0, 1) kernel/isolinux/vmlinuz Ro root =/dev/hda5initrd/isolinux/initrd. img6. Restart your computer and select the menu to start installation.