Newbie Questions....

[Tim Alberts]

I didn't hear about the 'bug' with installing FC2 and XP before it was
too late..lost tons of data and a week or two of work.

My suggestion, don't use FC2 EVER!!!!  Just go to FC3.


On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 18:24 -0800, Charles Malespin wrote:
> Hi, so I just bought a dell computer with XP installed on it already.
> I also bought a Fedora 2 reference book that had a DVD with FC2 etc so
> that I can run a dual boot.   I just found out about the problem that
> comes up when you try and run Fedora and XP together, but I cant get a
> straight easy way to fix this problem.  I tried to burn the FC2 rescue
> CD and boot from that, but it just tells me "missing OS" and doesnt do
> anything from there.  I have also seen that if you just go ahead and
> boot and load FC2 that after you can run something like 
>      # sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread --force -H255 /dev/hda
>    and then it will work again.  Any help would be useful, I am JUST
> starting with linux so the easier the better
> Thanks, 
> CAM
> 
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