Hi; I have been playing with this for three or four days and still haven't got it right. Any help would be appreciated. I run Fedora on my own basement machine. I have installed Ubantu on my wife's WindowsXP upstairs - with her very grudging permission. Family diplomacy suggestes that I do not make her machine a dual boot. (Dual booting would just serve has a constant reminder that I have been screwing around with her machine. Any time something goes wrong it will be Linux's and consequently my fault.) What grub files should I but on a floppy to give me a dual boot into her system? I would use the floppy as sort of a key. Will I still want or need /root? Is there a way that I can get to the Linux on her system while I am on my own Fedora downstairs? Are any of you married? Can I really get into big trouble doing this? Regards Bill