Noob FC2+Winxp dual boot 2 drives

[bradm0101]

Hello all-
Noob here. Got my hands on Fedora 2 and want to install it on my machine. I've been reading some threads about this issue and since I'm new to Linux some of the terminology I cant understand. This is what i want to do: Dual boot XP and Fedora 2 on my machine and have the option to select the two at startup. My configuration is as follows:
Intel III 256mb Ram
40gig w/xp installed
6 gig pulled from an old machine thats really not being used- this is the drive I want to install Fedora 2 on. The drive is installed and is the slave, and is a FAT32 drive.
There is a great writeup on installing Fedora 1 dual boot w/xp with 2 drives but I read some threads that FC2 has an issue with screwing up the MBR on the XP drive after install that renders the computer useless. I also have read of some workarounds but since I'm so new to Fedora 2 I wouldnt know how to modify the MBR to fix it. I have good working knowledge of XP and boot records but dont want to take the risk of f'ing up my machine and not knowing how to fix it. Can some one provide me with kinda a step by step solution at least to get FC2 installed? If I have to apply a fix I can do that, I just need some specific instructions.
Thanks for any help,
Brad

[saBrEwolf]

Ok.. first, have a boot disk handy for XP so you can fdisk /mbr to repair to boot record
You don't really need step-by-step from here, the FC1 install on two disks should be fine.
As you're installing FC2 onto another drive you should still be able to boot XP without problems as FC won't be editing the partition table for your drive with XP on, only the MBR.

[bradm0101]

Sounds good. Here goes nothing...... If you dont hear from me how it went youll know why!
Thanks again,
Brad

[imdeemvp]

this is what i would do: make your slave a primary and your primary as slave (win xp) that way your partitions are not a risk....and when you are installing install to primary (6gb old hd)
but you need about 5gb to install fc2....so do a minimum installation...:D

[Psquared]

Ideemvp, if you do that how will Grub get installed? Seems like once you switch them back then you would only be able to boot XP. Do you separately install Grub on the XP partition?

I asked this question on another thread, but why won't it work the other way? That is, why not just install Linux on drive 2 (without switching them) and let the setup program detect XP and setup Grub to dual boot?

[multiboot]

I have a 3 drive system
hdd1 XP32
hdd2 XP64
hdd4 FC3x64
Grub is on hdd4 it all works fine