09 Buy Small white Y450, now idle, the system is installed XP, and there is no use, simply change to Linux directly, become simple point.
Anyway, the question is how to replace XP with Linux, to install dual system please bypass!
1. Make USB disk boot disk
Use the "Old Wool pick PE" tool, select the following ISO mode, then the Linux CentOS 6.5 iso file that you just downloaded, then click on "One click to make USB boot disk", wait for the production to complete.
2. Prepare to work (hard drive format)
2.1 Y450 hard disk format
2.1.1 Use the PE tool to format the hard drive, which uses the "Old Hairy pick PE" tool.
after entering the PE system, click the Start button in the lower left corner of the desktop, then open the Partition tool, then select "System comes with Disk Management".
2.1.2 After you open the Disk Management tool, right-select the hard disk you want to format, and select Format in the pop-up options.
2.1.3 pop-up parameter settings, you can modify it, of course, the default setting is OK, then click the "OK" button.
2.1.4 Click the OK button in the pop-up prompt to
3. USB flash Drive Installation CentOS 6.5
3.1 Set the first boot item to a USB flash drive
BIOS interface Each motherboard is different, see the following prompt yourself (Y450 is F12), then saving changes and exit
3.2 Enter the interface
Select the first
3.3 installation Interface
3.4 Select a language
look at the situation, I chose Chinese, because the first time to use a physical machine installation, secure point
3.5 Choose where to install the system
Select hard Drive
3.6 Choose the time zone, then the hostname and root password.
4. Hard disk partition
4.1 Delete original partition
4.2 Allocate space
allocation scheme:
I changed the swap to 2000M because the memory is 2G, Test:
http://jingyan.baidu.com/article/fedf07375b0d5c35ac8977f0.html
4.3 partition complete
5. Installation Interface
6. Complete
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Y450 notebook XP Replacement Linux CentOs 6.5 record