rockytruelyrox

I went through almost every possible thread related to this topic but I somehow still find myself a bit confused so I am sorry for starting a new thread. 1st. of all I am completely a newbie when you say linux & I am very good with windows & hardware ( as I work for desktop tech. support ). I have a lot of releases or flavors ( not quite sure if thats the correct term ) like fedora, ubuntu, xbuntu & kubuntu. I am very desparate to get this fedora core 5 to be installed in my pc in a dual boot mode. Allright now here is what I have & done till now.. I have the ISO burned nicely on 6 disc's. The PC is self built.. Processor : AMD Athlon 64 3000+ RAM : DDR 400 : 512Mb Motherboard : Asus A8N VM CSM Current OS : Windows XP Pro with SP2 ( sick of it being vulnerable without curtains ) HDD : Seagate SATA 160 gb @ 7200 rpm Optical drive : Asus DVD RAM-RW GPU : XFX Nvidia 6500 256 mb I had a partition in windows ( f:\ ) of 40 gig which was almost empty so I went into disk management & deleted it so that I can install FC 5 in it. I tried installing fedora after putting my optical drive as primary boot in BIOS & it started installing however it wants to do a fresh install like foramating the complete HDD which I cant as I have a lotta stuff in windows which I cant loose. I tried going through the posts about this & it talks about grub & such things which I cant understand as Its completely new for me...Please it would be helpfull & kind if some 1 can gimme lucid steps I really wanna do this & feel the power of open source.

please check my post in the thread. thx a lot.

hey sorry I am a bit late as I had formatted my PC. Good news : I got the dual boot with the grub it waits for like 3 seconds & if I don't make a selection it goes to boot with fedora. I only have 1 HDD that I have mentioned Seagate baracuda 160gb, 7200rpm, 8mb cache. Sorry dan I have Dial up & no cable or DSL so i can't download such large chunk of ISO's. Sadly in india high speed internet is not easily availale. Yeah the distro that I have are the 64bit ones not the i386. This is what I did : First I had to format with windows as I had created all partition to be dynamic so I cud'nt set them back to primary, extended or logical. While installing windows I selected just a space of 30 gig & left the entire 120gd blank & unformatted. After installing windows I went in diskmgmt.msc & made three logical drives of 30gb each so altogether I had 120gig In which 1 primary with windows & rest in an extended partition as logical drives ( 30 * 3 = 90 ). I still had 30gigs of empty space that I could configure later as required. Note : I did not format any of these partitions I just created them. Now while installing fedora I went for a manual configuration & selected one of the extended drives that I created in windows to install fedora as \ ( root I guess ) & I told it to format with ext 3 ( i guess that was the file system - I am damn bad with linux told ya ) & I made a \swap partition of 1024mb as I got to know from some sites that I need to create one with twice the size of the RAM. Now the issue : I am unable to get my modem ( dial up ) installed. My Mobo has high defination sound but I cant get the sound properly. It plays mucic from only one speaker in my 2.1 & the other one makes a tweaking sound like beeping monotone speaker. I cant get any of my DVD's to play. And I have some couple of media players for linux but I cant install them I guess you have some different way of installing applications in linux. Actually I am getting these distros on DVD's free with some IT magazines here in india.. Do you say its better for me to install ubuntu. I don't have any printers or scanners. I basically use computer for internet & playing games although I know It doesn't sound like much of a gaming rig but thats what I could afford & I am quite happy as it lemme' plays all latest games without any hassle. Since Its direct X 9 C shader version III enabled. I found this particular distro do you think its better to get this If yes than I'll download this at my office or shall I go with ubuntu as FC 5 is unable to get my sound & video drivers as well as modem. http://www.lixsystems.net/lix/product_fi...N_InstallCD.htm