Fedora Core 6 install issues

[ch33zw1z]

08.01.07:
So I've played around with Linux for a bit and I'm interested in Dual Booting to begin with, maybe a permanent move someday. I read through the sticky at the top of the forum but I still have this question.

I have XP installed on an 80GB, a 250GB for my movies, and 2x250GB in RAID1 on a Promise S150 tx4(which has RedHat drivers). All of these are NTFS of course, and I need to know if they'll work in Linux without any extra tweaking. If it does take extra work, what exactly do I need to do?

08.02.07:
I decided to go with Fedora Core 6 and have run into problems during the install. I choose the graphical install, and right after it probes my VGA, a Nvidia 6600GT, the screen gets scrambled and nothing else happens. When I press CTRL+ALT+DEL, I get a partial blue bar across the screen with a cursor. I'm trying to research it, but work is getting in the way

*UPDATE*
08.04.07:
Core 7 gave me the same issues as Core 6. The entire time, GRUB wouldn't work properly due to ?? I guess XP being installed. I had to wipe the disk and start from scratch with just Ubuntu v7.04, which would work ok with my 6600GT if I installed in Safe Graphical Mode. So far Ubuntu looks great, I'm gonna keep giving it a test drive...and work on the dual boot thing

 

[Nothinman]

You'll be able to read them no problem without anything at all since Linux includes a read-only NTFS driver. To write to them you'll want to look at installing NTFS-3g.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
You'll be able to read them no problem without anything at all since Linux includes a read-only NTFS driver. To write to them you'll want to look at installing NTFS-3g.

Thanks

 

[ch33zw1z]

bump for update

 

[Tarrant64]

Install in text-mode?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
Install in text-mode?

good call, will try after work..totally forgot about that option at the beginning

 

[n0cmonkey]

Why not use Fedora 7?

 

[Nothinman]

Why not use Fedora 7?

Yea, choosing to start a release behind current isn't exactly the best idea.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Is 6 that bad? I grabbed it all nice and .ISO'd up, maybe I just overlooked the .ISO of 7?

edit: exactly what I did, I'll give 7 a shot...thanks

 

[Nothinman]

Is 6 that bad?

If you like Fedora then no, not really. But if someone was going to take Windows for a test run would you suggest they install Win2K? I realize I went back 2 major revisions there but I didn't say XP because a lot of people are still scared of Vista right now and would opt for XP.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Is 6 that bad?

If you like Fedora then no, not really. But if someone was going to take Windows for a test run would you suggest they install Win2K? I realize I went back 2 major revisions there but I didn't say XP because a lot of people are still scared of Vista right now and would opt for XP.

Core 7 gives me the same issue..I'm working on the dual boot with XP right now, one thing at a time

 

[Nothinman]

So do the text based install, it's pretty much the same but I'm not sure how it'll handle X after the first reboot.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
So do the text based install, it's pretty much the same but I'm not sure how it'll handle X after the first reboot.

My main issue is not being able to get the boot loader to work correctly. First, how the boot drive is setup:

(hd0) is 80GB SATA drive partitioned in half, it's labeled sda. I formatted the second half to ext2 while setting up the partitions, but during the Core 7 installed I chose to delete all Linux partitions and install default layout

hd0,0:
sda1 = XP install, when set to active partition, loads no prob.

These next two made by Core 7 during the install process:
hd0,1:
sda2 = /boot
sda3 = ext3 partition

When I set the XP install as the active partition, XP boots ok.

When I set the partition (either) Linux partition to active I receive: Error Loading OS

I've tried a few things, including a reinstall. Next move is reimaging the XP install, and move it to (hd0,1)...and install Core 7 on (hd0,0)

 

[Nothinman]

It usually installs GRUB to the MBR to dualboot so if changing the active partition actually works the MBR is still the default and unless during the install you told it to install GRUB to another partition, like the /boot partition, it won't have a way to boot.

 

[ch33zw1z]

It gave me the option between MBR and /boot, I chose /boot, I'll reinstall again and put it in MBR. Good thing about Core 7, install time is less than windows

 

[ch33zw1z]

bump for update, thanks again for all the help...sometimes just need a pointer.