Installed with disastrous results

[Robert L Cochran]

Yes, I agree with Iain. You don't need deep, draconian measures here. 
Using your boot disk and then using the grub-install program should help 
you out. Why don't you go to IBM's developerWorks site and read their 
excellent tutorials on Grub.

As an aside, it really should not be difficult to install Fedora on one 
of two hard drives. As long as Windows was installed first, and you 
installed Grub on /dev/hda, you should be fine. These days the only time 
I have a problem with multiple operating systems is when trying to 
install Linux on each of 2 hard drives as the only operating systems.

That brings up the conceptually hard part: if you install Linux on 
/dev/hda and also on /dev/hdb, you have to edit the grub.conf and 
/etc/fstab files and use the e2label program to make sure your drives 
have unique partition labels.

But for your purposes, so long as you installed the grub bootloader you 
should be able to dual boot both Windows 2000 and Fedora with no sweat. 
You can pretty much trust the installer. It doesn't wreck anything, at 
least it doesn't in my experience.

(The Red Hat 6.0/6.1 installers were different stories. Now those were 
horrible. But that was a long, long, happily forgotten time ago.)

Bob

Iain Buchanan wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 22:32, PCDEBB | Fedora-list wrote:
> [lots of stuff!]
> 
> woah... First things first: stop and take a deep breath.  Everyone is
> suggesting huge reinstalls (of both windows and linux), formats,
> re-partitioning, etc, etc yadda yadda yadda.  Don't be impatient and
> just go ahead with all that!  You can waste hours.  Its better to spend
> your time on something else while you're waiting for the right answer
> from the mailing list (not that this is necessarily the right answer :)
> 
> So long as you haven't deleted anything, your pc can be fixed with no
> doubt a few simple commands.  The first one being suggested already:
> grub-install
> 
> It _should_ find all the grub files ok, since they're in /boot, and then
> repost with your results.
> 
> Hope this saves some time,

-- 
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/