Help regarding installation of Fedora Core 2

[Sylvain Raybaud]

Wow !   multiboot is not always easy of use, but if in addition you don't want to install grub nor lilo, it's gonna be pretty hard.
about keeping your win data, anaconda (FC2 installer) let you choose on which disk you want to install linux, so your data are safe. just make sure you selected the right disk.
about multiboot, I can't help if you don't want to use grub or lilo.  but I can say that it is quite safe to install nux on the slave disk and let anaconda install and configure grub, at least if your windows is an Xp. you can also unplug your win disk, plug your linux as master, install linux with the win disk unplugged (the safest way for your data) and let anaconda install grub, then replug the win disk as slave and configure grub manually (that is what I did and it works pretty well.  there are some traps in grub.conf so I can send you my config file).




Hi all,

I am new to Linux and so I needed some help about installing it. I have two hard disks i.e. one master and one slave.  Now I want to install Fedora Core 2 on the slave hard disk.. and I want it to be such that even if something goes wrong my data on the master hard disk containing the windows OS should not get affected. So please guide me as to how should I proceed. 
Besides that I don't want to install GRUB or LILO to the MBR... instead I want to write the GRUB boot record to the first sector of the linux boot partition. So after doing this is there a way that I can modify windows boot.ini to get a bootup option between LINUX and Windows at startup so that I can choose between the two.

Thanks 
Neshat Afroz
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