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I say grub a lot in this post. grub = boot loader. It can boot linux or boot different OSs off of different filesystems (like a WinXP one), which you can set up.

As for belkins post, definitely! And unless you made a boot disk during the install, it can be a pain re-installing grub if you're not sure what you're doing.

Windows likes to be on the C: drive only, from my experience. You can fight it (through grub at least) and swap drives in the config.. but it's added complexity.

From my experience, when you're setting up grub during the install phase on Fedora (I've done installs of FC1/FC2/FC3, they all had this option I believe), it shows you a list of other harddrives/partitions you have and what it detects them as (filesystem wise [ ext2/ntfs/fat/fat32/etc ] ). You can check a box next to the the ones you want to include in the grub menu (and change your default if you want).

Just a warning with FC2, it had a problem where it could wipe the boot record for windows.. so the dual boot wouldn't work. It's a (fixable) problem, but it's more hassle.. I'd suggest getting the latest version (Fedora Core 3) anyways.

Yeah, debian people can be assholes (especially bendsley ) There are plenty of fedora forums out there to help you if you chose that route. Same for Mandrake and most other "newbie-friendly" distros.