This installation method supports most Linux distributions under the example of CentOS 6.3!
Recently because of learning needs, so I think in their own notebook with a centos to facilitate learning! After several attempts, it has been installed successfully and is ready to write down 2 tutorials, respectively XP installation and Win7 installation to help the friends who need to install!
Note: If the dual graphics card notebook, such as n card, you may need to disable the BIOS in the N card! For help, please leave a message--!
1.1: First, before the installation of the preparatory work
1.1.1 Environment Introduction
Install CentOS on a notebook that already has Windows XP system
1.1.2 System Preparation
①:windows XP The system you can download your own search
②:centos 6.3
③:grub4dos
The mirror is less than 4G, friends do not have to worry about not to put FAT32 file partition! Calm down and continue to look down!
2.1: Hard Drive Installation
1: Divide a FAT32 partition (5G is enough) the following picture for my notebook partition information!
2: Download the CentOS 6.3 of the mirrored file in the XP system under the FAT32 partition (note: CentOS do not know the NTFS format!) )
2, Decompression CentOS6.3 image folder (Isolinux) and (images) are extracted to the C disk and the FAT32 partition of the root directory