OFF-TOPIC: Fedora 7 already installed, can't install XP on empty partition

[Matthew Flaschen]

André Costa wrote:

> Cool, thks for confirming that. NTFS will occupy the first 150G, can
> this be a problem for grub?

No, because the file system is not occupying the MBR
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record).  The Windows boot
loader *will* be installed to the MBR, but GRUB stage 1 will overwrite
this when you install Fedora, and that's okay because GRUB definitely
knows how to load Windows.

Matt Flaschen