Help Needed On Dual-boot Windows Xp With Fcore 3

Have any of you tried partitioning your computer drive to install Fedora in addition to windows? If so, I wish for some comments on how it went, or if you know information please share. I'm interested in trying this out. Does it in any way slow my system down? I'm currently running on Windows XP Home Edition...thanks

It went fine. It will NOT slow down your system since it seperates Linux and Windows from each other. It will boot each operating system at a time.Home Edition is slow anyways. It is slower than Professional. All I know is that Fedora Core 3 is slower than Fedora Core 4.xboxrulz

Go for it, I have had a dual boot for years now. It does not slow anything down since you are running an entirely different operating system.

Hello Mr.transqrx so you wanna install the Fedora.Welcome to the Linux community.You are going to be one of those luckiest persons in the world who have just clean their hard drives by formatting windows and installed the Fedora(or Red Hat).Firstly you have to note that partitioning a hard disk is a charm now with the release of Fedora 3.The built in disk druid utility is all about to do this for you.I hope you have windows xp installed and you want to install Fedora 3 freshly on a seperate partition.Here are the steps you should go about without getting into trouble.1.)I hope you must be knowing that Fedora unlike windows recognises partition by different names.If you have a single hard disk then it must have a name hda.IF you have the windows on c: drive then Fedora recognises it as hda1.If you have another hard disk then its name must be hdb and so on.2.)If you are not familiar with this nomenclature you can see your partition status through Diskpart utility in the windows xp cd.Just go to recovery console.Launch the command prompt and issue the command Diskpart.You will be presented with the partition info.As windows is always jealous of linux popularity it will show you the linux partition as unknown although the file system in linux is either ext2 or ext3.3.)Just insert your Fedora 3 first cd(in all total 3 cds).4.)Press enter when it prompts you to do so.5.)For some time it will probe about your monitor,motherboard etc and then will give you the option to check the cd.Leave it.6.)Now when all is set to go a graphical user interface is started similar to windows.7.)All you have to do is silently follow the simple steps.8.)When it comes to partition it will offer you to do it the manual way or the automatic way.Select the manual way if you are installing Fedora for the first time.9.)Now Here you will be able to create ,edit or delete partition.SO BE CAREFUL.10.)Do not touch the window partitions.You will easily know that which is the window partition when you will see the vfat filesystem tag in front of it.11.)Now to install the Fedora in free space of your hard disk you have to made the three partition./ ---->Root Partition/boot ----->Boot Partitionswap ----->Swap partitionThe size of the root partition matters on the utilties you are going to install.If you wanna do a full install with eveything there you need about 6 Gb of space.The size of boot partition is of no use if made more than 50 MbThe size of the swap partition should ideally be twice of your RAM.12.)Thats it just go ahead

hi ...If you are not familiar with installing an configuring grub/lilo (its the boot-manager), it would be the easiest way to have an installed windows OS already and install the linux as the second.You don't have to do this, but in this case, the windows installation is found by the system - and grub/lilo is automaticlly configured fine. Also, windows delete the MBR during the installation process and you just can reinstall grub/lilo by booting with Knoppix or another LinuxOnCD.*greets*