An alternative approach -- if it will work.  Suppose I purchase a 1 
Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but 
this can be changed).
Suppose I install such a drive in the target machine that has MS Win 10 
on the internal hard drive, and then, during the boot (secure boot 
disabled, legacy boot enabled),
boot from the SL 7.2 install DVD.  Could I do the full install (I am not 
worried about partitions, etc., yet -- merely for testing purposes) to 
the USB drive, not touching the internal harddrive,
and, after the install, boot the machine from the external USB drive 
(again, not touching the harddrive).  Is this feasible?  I fully 
understand that an external USB drive machine will be "slower" than
a properly configured SATA internal harddrive machine -- but will this work?

Yasha Karant

On 04/02/2016 02:28 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
> On 04/02/2016 01:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> Other than stating that EL 7 will not work, are there any other 
>> suggestions? 
>
> Best option is to remove the drive and put your own in for testing.
>
> Alternatively, clone the drive with CloneZilla or if you're more 
> comfortable, "dd | gzip -1" and muck with it to your hearts 
> content...if you need to restore it to 'factory condition' just 
> restore your backup.
>
> I do this with ANY new purchase...before turning the system on and 
> booting it up.
>