need help installing Fedora

[Elliott Chapin]

At 07:21 PM 12/30/04, you wrote:
>If I read your email right you have a 120 GB WD drive with Win XP on it 
>and  a 30 GB Maxtor that is now just extra storage space.  I suggest that 
>you copy anything that you want to keep on to the larger drive and then 
>install Fedora on the Maxtor  ( which Linux will recognize as hdb) and let 
>it reformat the whole drive. There is really no need to use Partition 
>Magic -- Fedora will handle everything and its safe to let Grub be 
>installed to the MBR ( this how its intalled on one of my systems).

Safe? Suppose you have to re-install XP for some reason. I've experiences 
serious MBR problems under those circumstances. It's it's one of the 
reasons why I boot the Linux from a floppy.


>John
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