im on the search for the perfect distro, and ive tried suse, mdk, and fedora core 2, fedora core 2 was my latest venture, and it ran sluggish on my box, so i decided to test yet another, so i took my box to my freinds place, and downloaded yoper. i burned the iso to a cd from windows, and rebooted into cd. all starts off well, i get to partition my drives, and i want linux to have its own hdd, so i have a 20 gig for it, i make a swap file of 256mb and use the rest for a file system ext 3. then i proceed to the next step and it tells me there is no linux file system. and installation failed.

and when i reboot without the yoper cd in, grub wont boot into windows from my fc2 install.

any ideas?

i wish i could be more specific on the error messages, but right now the only working comp i have is at work.

Thanks,

hi
to remove grub do this

boot from a win98 cd
at the command prompt
#fdisk /mbr
will remve grub and rewrite the windows MBR to it


or boot from a winxp/200 cd in to recovery console
and use "fixmbr"

regards
gaurav

ill definately try that, but i still want linux on the system as well, if i perhaps re-install fedora core will that work?

hi
try the above and se if windows works
if it works then boot from ur first CD of fedora
go to linux rescue
#chroot /mnt/sysimage

then
#vi /etc/grub.conf

and post that grub.conf here
will see whats wrong there

regards
gaurav