4.5 Summary

CentOS 8 can safely co-exist on the same disk drive as a Windows operating system by creating a dual boot environment. This involves shrinking the amount of space occupied by the Windows system to make room for CentOS 8 before performing the installation. Once CentOS has been installed, the boot menu configuration must be modified to include the option to boot from Windows. To access the Windows filesystem from within CentOS, the Fuse NTFS driver needs to be installed and used to mount the Windows partitions.