On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:20, Lotsa Cabo wrote: > My apologies for asking a redundant question, however I don't clearly > understand if the problems I've read are with BOTH FC2 and FC3 or just with > FC2. I'll make it quick... > > My configuration is this... > > ... WinXP SP2 > ... Laptop with 40GB (15 = win, 15 = free, 10 = swap for win) > ... Partition 0 is NTFS a primary > ... Partition 1 (on the tail end of the drive) is FAT32 > > If I want to partition the free space and install FC3, would I be in store > for any of the gotchas the other dual-boot WinXP folks are dealing with? > I don't have any issues on my laptop. Just delete the FAT32 partition and make linux and swap partitions. You'll want at least 2 linux partitions a / and /boot besides of course the swap. Just overwirte the MBR and during the install add XP to the grub config.