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Thanks for the reply i got. i really appreciate it. the issue now is that i have been running win xp on my system (ntfs) and i just downloaded this fedora core 4 because i have been getting interested in linux lately, so i want to try it out and see how it goes. basically i know linux is more stable than windows. i want to re-format my hard drive and reload win xp and fedora this time. i have tried with ubuntu and it was a breeze, but when i tried with fedora it said "cannot find valid mount points"(?) after some thinking i figured maybe it was because my file system on win xp i am using now is ntfs. does this matter? i can change it to fat32 if so when i re-format. please dont be offended by my asking seemingly foolish questions, but i have to get it right because in my area there is nobody who uses linux, so all my help and guidance is from guys like you, and i appreciate it much. any other helpful advice is very welcome. thanks.

Good day all of you. I am new to this forum and I am doing some research with different versions of linux working with win xp pro. i have used ubuntu hoary hedgehog, and moved to breezy badger. Ubuntu installs cleanly with win xp on the hard disk already: ubuntu uses the free space on the drive and creates its own partitions. I have downloaded fedora core 4 and burned the 4 cd's. I tried to install to my system with win xp already running but it says cannot find partition or smthing like that. Now I know I should re-format and create about three partitions (my hdd is 60gb), but I want to know if I should leave the first partition and install xp to the second so fedora can install its boot sector on the first partition? Will this work? I can't use a second hard drive since I am using a notebook (ibm thinkpad t41, 1.7Ghz CPU, 1gb mem, 60gb hdd, dvd/cd-rw). Any help toward resolving this is appreciated as I intend formatting by tomorrow to accomodate win xp and fedora core 4. THANKS.