Much trouble getting dual-boot working

[John Haxby]

Fran Fabrizio wrote:

>> You can keep your paritions as they are, you don't need to change 
>> them.    If this all goes pear-shaped you can re-install Fedora and 
>> choose the default options for booting and just stop worrying about 
>> it :-)
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> I did this twice when I first started to try this (reinstalled Fedora 
> and accepted all default options for booting) and it didn't work - 
> that's how I got into this trouble in the first place. :-) 

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> I am going to try again: I'm going to use Partition Magic to get rid 
> of all partitions except the WinXP and Dell Diag ones.  I'm going to 
> remove all space I made between the DellUtil and WinXP partitions 
> (where I tried to put /boot) so that it will appear as shipped, except 
> with 60G unpartitioned space at the end of the drive.  I will then do 
> a fresh install of Fedora, accepting all defaults, which I believe 
> will want to install Grub in the MBR.  I suspect this won't work, as 
> it didn't seem to before, but I will defer to your knowledge and will 
> try it again. :-)

I hope I haven't let you down.

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> Thanks for the feedback, I'll let you know in 45 minutes or so if it 
> worked. 


I'll await the response with bated breath.

jch

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