"I'm far from a Linux expert, but I have managed to learn enough about it to be dangerous, and maybe even helpful on occasion. So I thought I'd put together a little 'how-to' on installing Red Hat/Fedora on a system that already has Windows XP on it.
"My suggestion to anyone wanting to dual boot Windows and Linux is to use two separate hard drives; one drive for Linux, and one drive for Windows. This just makes things easier, though it's really not any harder on system with one drive and multiple partitions.
"Like I said, this guide is going with the assumption that you already have Windows installed, and that it resides on a separate hard drive than what you will be using for Linux..."