Well, here goes.

I haven't burned the CDs yet, but I was wondering how hard it is to duel boot with XP and install the nvidia drivers.

Cheers and thank you!

Tavy

Dual booting with XP is a piece of cake. Installing the NVidia drivers is usually easy, but you MUST read the instructions. About 95% of all problems installing them are because people didn't pay attention to the docs.

Does Fedora use LILO or GRUB?
and also, how is it possible to back up the MBR?

I had a few probs with GRUB in the past, also called an imcompitent older brother totally destroyed the MBR.

Cheers!

Tavy

And also, how exactly do you install the nv drivers?

Best to just know all that I'm doing.

Cheers!

Tavy

Installing the NVidia drivers is just a matter of having the right kernel source available (and dev tools) and running their binary (with options as described in the docs if necessary). The installer has an option to try and download some files so you will not even need to compile anything, but this has never worked for me - it might work with specific distros using their original kernels.

I have no idea which boot loader Fedora uses, but grub is a very good boot loader, and I don't really believe it destroyed your MBR beyond repair. Keep your XP CD handy and you can fix any problems except a damaged partition table (very unlikely occurrence). The MBR is actually a very simple mechanism - do some reading on the internet and learn what it does, and read the docs for grub. Messing with the boot sequence without educating yourself first is a recipe for disaster, not because you can damage things, but because attempts to fix things without understanding what's going wrong will often make things worse. Blame your brother, not grub

default for Fedora is Grub.

CroMagnon:

Yes, I am blaming the brother, GRUB worked fine for me...until he booted it *slaps forehead* that's why stupid people stay away from computers. And I'm reading every doc I can possibly find on installition and generaly use of Fedora. miswell come prepared.

But, is there any way to use LILO instead?

Cheers!

Tavy

Default boot loader is grub....I think you can also have the option of putting in Lilo if you prefer that instead.

Yes, you get the option of LILO, I checked.

But I have one thing to ask.

I currently have 20 GB totally unpartitioned space on the drive(a 120 Gb maxtor), where I'm planning on installing Fedora, but I have WinXP Pro SP2 on the rest of the drive. and I need to use custom paritioning, is that possible without any damage to the XP partition?

Cheers!

Tavy

Yes, that's possible. Just be sure not to delete the XP partition and I don't think you'll have any trouble.

LoL yeah, ya think.

Thank you everyone!!!

Cheers!

Tavy