This might help. Check this out: http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html -Timo > Hi all, > > I am new to Linux and so I needed some help about installing it. I have two > hard disks i.e. one master and one slave. Now I want to install Fedora Core > 2 on the slave hard disk.. and I want it to be such that even if something > goes wrong my data on the master hard disk containing the windows OS should > not get affected. So please guide me as to how should I proceed. > Besides that I don't want to install GRUB or LILO to the MBR... instead I > want to write the GRUB boot record to the first sector of the linux boot > partition. So after doing this is there a way that I can modify windows > boot.ini to get a bootup option between LINUX and Windows at startup so that > I can choose between the two. > > Thanks > Neshat Afroz >