I've had a dual boot with Mandrake Linux 10 and Win Xp Pro for a while and some of my friends have been prompting me to change my linux distro to the well known Fedora Core.

I've got one 120 Gig Hardrive that I originally partitioned and installed Xp Pro (100gigs) and Mandrake Linux(20 gigs).

I have Lilo as my boot manager and it lets me pick between the different options, and defaults to Win Xp.

One thing I really don't want to do is to completely screw up my windows partition so is there any way I can mess up while doing this.

If someone can post up some instructions on how they did it or any help at all it will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chenu

During the Fedora installation process, you will be asked how you want to partition the drive and one of the choices will be to remove all existing Linux partitions. I usually use this option when doing a reinstall.

However, this completely erases all data (files, preferences, everything). You can also reinstall the bootloader which is also part of the install process. Hope this helps, write back if it didn't.

I am booting the above thru a 3rd party Boot Mng. (System Commander) in diferent versions for some years now & have had no problems booting into any of them.
For this type of experimentation with Op systems I would recommend the 3rd party option. There are a number of boot managers which will do the job. Just search google "boot manager".
It saves a lot of fuss & bother & protects your other bootable partitions from corruption.

Just my HO.

heres one for starters, http://gag.sourceforge.net , even I installed it, it's ez.