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[doc.ved]

i have a dell xps m1210 with windows vista bussiness professional. i want to try fedora in it. before i proceed on an installation i have a few doubts:-

is it possible to install both windows and fedora on different partitions?
where can i get all the drivers for my laptop?

[glennzo]

It's entirely possible. I installed Fedora on my laptop when it was new. Came with Vista Home Premium and a 160GB disk. I used the Windows Disk Management tool to shrink the disk and add a 20GB partition. Installed Fedora on the new partition making sure to format the partition as EXT3. The installer set up the grub boot loader for me and off I went. I've since created more partitions and now boot Fedora, Ubuntu (distro if the week for me) XP and Vista on this laptop.

[doc.ved]

but what do i do about the drivers???
please advice i am totally new to this

[glennzo]

You won't know what drivers you need until the install is complete and you boot first time. First thing that you'll probably need would be video drivers, NVidla, ATI, Intel, etc. Worry about it after the install. Plenty of help in this forum. Shouldn't be a big deal.

Remember to backup any important data before you do anything. Should be no surprises but you never know. Better safe than sorry.

[doc.ved]

thanks again

another thing , can you give me links to download fedora through torrent.
i have a slow internet connection and it cannot possibly download the full installation in one go

[glennzo]

Here you go, http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora. There are torrent links there.