I used partition magic to repartition his 80 GB hard drive into two partitions one for XP and one for Fedora. XP was left in the first partition. Also, there is a tiny partitions for Dell utilities at the very beginning of the disk. Something I have never seen before.
First installation attempt failed because X would not start properly.
Second installation using text mode failed because the installation program while loading the installation and setup programs to disk reported that their was not enough disk space.
I tried Red Hat 8. It hung during the boo process. I used disks I had installed from many times before.
Also, install reported that it did not like creating the root directory on the second partition.
I have through of moving XP to the second partition and installing Linux on the first partition if that would help ( What a potential nightmare).
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
