How to install CentOS 6 in an XP Environment

Install CentOS in an XP environment for multi-OS installation: 1. Download grub4DOS. Http://up.2cto.com/2012/0516/20120516084923946.zip www.2cto.com 2. Download CentOS6.ISO image, hard disk installation using Bin version. Http://mirrors.163.com/centos/6.2/isos/i386/ installation: 1. Disk preparation, prepare a large enough FAT32 format disk (such as 5G), used to place the installation file, can make the C disk, other disks can be. 2.decompress grub, copy grldr, menu.list, grldr.exe, and put it into drive c. 3. Test CentOS. ISO to the prepared disk (F), and decompress vmlinuz, initrd. img, and images. For example, you can test the image to drive F, and then decompress vmlinuz, initrd. img, and images to drive F. 4. edit menu. list file, add the title install CentOS kernel (hd0, 6)/vmlinuz initrd (hd0, 6)/initrd. img -- note that (hdX, Y), X 0 indicates the first disk. If the computer has only one disk, 0 indicates the disk,
Y indicates the partition. The extended partition starts from number 4, that is, (sda5), (hd0, 4) = sda5 = D:. You can also manually enter the preceding command.
5. Edit the boot. ini file. First, modify the attributes. The default file is a read-only file, and add: C: \ grldr = "Grub" at the end ",
Save, OK www.2cto.com, restart, select Grub when starting, and then select install CentOS. Note the following during the installation process:
1. when selecting the centOS Image Location and placing it on the drive F, select/dev/sda7. Here (hd0, 6) = sda7 = F: 2. you need to create a linux partition by yourself, and create/boot ---- 200 M, swap ----- 1024 M,/---- for root partition 3. to overwrite XP, delete the sda1 of XP and repartition it. when installing grub, if it is a multi-operating system, you need to select the default Operating System, one is CentOS, the Other is Other, CetnOS should point to the root directory (/), that is, the new "/" partition, Other should point to the C drive, that is (sda1) above the installation test successful grub4dos-0.4.4-2009-06-20.zip (809.5 KB) http://up.2cto.com/2012/0516/20120516085053921.zip author qifan. yang