Much trouble getting dual-boot working

[Fran Fabrizio]

> You can keep your paritions as they are, you don't need to change 
> them.    If this all goes pear-shaped you can re-install Fedora and 
> choose the default options for booting and just stop worrying about it :-)

I did this twice when I first started to try this (reinstalled Fedora 
and accepted all default options for booting) and it didn't work - 
that's how I got into this trouble in the first place. :-)

I am going to try again: I'm going to use Partition Magic to get rid of 
all partitions except the WinXP and Dell Diag ones.  I'm going to remove 
all space I made between the DellUtil and WinXP partitions (where I 
tried to put /boot) so that it will appear as shipped, except with 60G 
unpartitioned space at the end of the drive.  I will then do a fresh 
install of Fedora, accepting all defaults, which I believe will want to 
install Grub in the MBR.  I suspect this won't work, as it didn't seem 
to before, but I will defer to your knowledge and will try it again. :-)

Thanks for the feedback, I'll let you know in 45 minutes or so if it worked.

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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
fran at cis.uab.edu
(205) 934-0653