Gareth Marsh wrote: > What's my first step? > Hdd has two partitions (both ext3); the first is 100gb and the second is > 200gb. I'm guessing it's to get the hdd bootable so I use use grub to boot > the fedora iso (which will be on the second partition) and if so how do I > install grub under windows? I'm pretty sure grub needs a Linux system (or something like it) to install and run. Why don't you just burn a Fedora DVD, and run that? If it doesn't work you could try something more exotic. Or get the KDE Live CD, and run that. You can then install it if you wish. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland