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

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

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