Fedora Users — First-time install troubles

This is my first time installing Fedora, my first time installing on an SATA disk (why I switched to Fedora from RH9 in the first place), and my first time trying to setup dual boot with a machine with NTFS, and I'm having some issues:

The machine is a Dell Dimension 4600 that came pre-installed with XP on a 120 GB SATA disk. I used Partition Magic to size that down to 60G leaving 60G for linux.

- The auto-partition makes an /dev/sda3 for /boot, and then a logical partition containing a /dev/sda5 for / and then the swap space. It then warns me that this might not be good for my boot loader, and a boot disk is strongly recommended. What's the problem here? I chose to install GRUB on the MBR, more or less accepted all defaults.

- When I then install, and get to the boot disk part, it tells me it can't make a boot disk because it won't fit on a floppy.

- When I reboot, it goes straight into Windows, no GRUB.

How can I get Fedora to successfully install the boot loader?

Thanks,
Fran

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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
fran@xxxxxxxxxxx
(205) 934-0653