[tjamnz]

Hello... During Installation of Fedora 6. I have 12 gigs of free space on my drive. Windows xp is the primary os.

When i get to anaconda during fedora install... there are so many options I just dont know where to begin, and am worried about wiping out any legit ntfs partitions in the process.

Has someone here really figured all of this out?

Whats a good resource or link to fully understanding this process?

Other than that im comfortable using linux, just installing it seems to be irritating, at least for me right now.

Thanks for any info.

(wishing the install was just like xp, or server 2003.. which is very easy, even with multiple partitions) why it wasn't made like that in the first place is beyond me. lol Maybe an answer to that question, would really help me to gain a real understanding of why the loader is the way it is. Also... based on the experience i just had, i would assume thats why linux never gets from the CD to the HardDrive for many people new to the system.

[saikee]

Fedora is in Version 11 now and the later ones can work as Live CD.

The best is to run a Linux Live CD to create two partitions, one 10Gb of Type 83 and 1Gb of Type 82 for swap.

When you are in Anaconda you click the 10Gb partition to edit it, select format in Ext3 and mount it as /. That is all. Fedora knows what to do with the swap. This way you know exactly the name of the 10Gb partition and will not be able to nuke the other system. Anaconda will install everything inside the 10Gb partition and arrange the dual boot.