First-time install troubles

[Fran Fabrizio]

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 at cis.uab.edu
(205) 934-0653