I have installed Fedora 8 on my 160gb drive and would like to create a partition of about 30gb for Windows XP. I have the windows install cd but I'm not sure how to do this in Linux. Any help for a newbie?

I recommend that you use fdisk to do the partitioning. The problem is that you shouldn't try to change the partition scheme on a running system. So, if you have some free space on your drive then you can run fdisk from within Fedora to create the Windows partition out of the free space.

If all of the space on the drive is being used by Fedora then you will have to boot a live CD and manipulate your partitions from the live CD.

Could you post the contents of your partition table. From within Fedora issue:

fdisk -l

Also could you post the contents of /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst.

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Steve Stites


Steve

Also look up mkfs.

Parted - Linux Partitioner

Parted
GParted

Don't forget that XP is going to overwrite your MBR so you won't be able to boot into Linux without some extra effort.