GoNoles

Hello, I recently installed FC 5 and chose not to create a swap partition for linux. I was given a message that said having a swap partition would increase the performance of linux. Is it really that much of a difference? and if so, should I reinstall fedora and create a swap partition? Thanks in advance, GoNoles

Thanks alot, danleff for president!!!

danleff, Thanks for the quick reply! To answer your questions: 1. my boot.lnx file IS 512kb 2. The XP Home istallation was a full installation from a Windows installation cd, NOT a Gateway restoration cd. I am on campus all day, so I will have an opportunity to try your suggestions this evening. I'll keep you posted. Noles

Hello All, I've read the other threads and can't seem to get this to work. My System: Gateway Computer Keystone motherboard AMD Athlon 1400 512 MB Ram Master HDD: 40 GB WD Caviar Windows XP Home Slave HDD: 120 GB Seagate 1st Partition: 30GB FAT32 2nd Partition: Fedora Core 5 I recently reformatted my master hdd and installed XP from scratch with the NFTS file system. I then installed a Second HDD and partitioned the first 30 GB or so to be FAT32 using the Windows XP partition program on the installation cd. Then I installed FC 5 on the unformatted portion of the Second HDD. I know that I installed Grub, but I do not know any of the details(I should have paid more attention I know). Upon rebooting my computer, I have no option to choose an OS, it automatically boots to Windows. I tried to fix this by booting with the rescue cd. At the prompt I typed: "chroot /mnt/sysimage" then I entered the command, "df", and I saw one large partition with "/" beside it and one small partition with "/boot" to the right of it. As a result I entered the following: "dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=boot.lnx bs=512 count=1" the result was: "1+0 records in 1+0 records out" I then copied boot.lnx to a floppy. Upon rebooting, I copied the boot.lnx file to the c drive and added the following line to my boot.ini file: "c:\boot.lnx="Fedora Core 5" Now when I boot up, I get the windows boot manager with the option of choosing between xp and fc 5. When I select fc 5, the computer does nothing except display a flashing "_". I then tried to change the boot order to boot my slave drive first and upon startup I got a message saying something to the effect of: "Problem Loading OS" As you can see I know nothing about linux, and from looking at it, this appears to have already been covered in other posts. For some reason I must be missing a step or something. Is it possible that my having a fat32 partition on the beginning of the linux hdd is causing a problem? All help is greatly appreciated. GoNoles