I installed Fedora Core 1 (from the "Red Hat Linux Fedora for Dummies" DVD). I chose to install the bootloader in the first sector of the boot partition, and now I can't boot Fedora. WinXP Pro SP2 boots just fine, but that's the only OS my computer seemingly detects. The Linux partitions are visible in diskmgmt.msc. How can I configure the Windows bootloader to have an option to boot Fedora, too? I think I need to modify the boot.ini file, but I'm not sure how to (syntax and whatever).

I am not a Fedora user, so this may not be accurate. Normally to dual-boot Windows (most any flavor) and Linux (AFAIK any distribution), you should either use a boot floppy to boot Linux, or install the Linux boot loader in the MBR (either lilo or grub) I use lilo with my Mandrakelinux installation, and lilo lets me boot Win-XP just fine. The reason your computer does not 'detect' the Linux installation is that you did not have the installer put the boot loader where the computer will execute it :). HTH, Ernie [ewilcox@buckeye-express.com] ICQ 41060744 Registered Linux User 247790

I am going to stay away from Linux for a while. I discovered that it had deleted every single one of my partitions except my WinXP system partition. I had ALL my apps on another partition and ALL my other stuff on another one. D! oh well guess I'll have to spend hours and hours trying to install them again...s!

Sorry to hear about your partitions. The answer to your question can be found here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html A safe alternative to experimenting with GNU/Linux is to try a live CD. This boots straight from a CD into the OS without the need to install anything to your hard drives. Knoppix is probably the most popular version: http://www.knoppix.org/

Yeah, Knoppix is great. I've also tried "knoppix-based" distros and they work okay, but a bit light on apps and slow to load (blame it on the compressed stuff on the CD)

FYI if you have enough memory then you can pass the "toram" switch when booting and it runs from a ram drive instead of CD which is dead quick. You can also install it to your hard drive and use apt-get as you would for any other debian based distro.