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I want to upgrade from Red Hat Linux 8.0 to Fedora Core 3. I have already downloaded FC3 on CD's. My current config. on my PC is that I have Win XP on primary hard drive and Red Hat 8.0 on another hard drive. Because my Compaq Presario reserves the first cylinder of my primary hard drive, I cannot use the GRUB utility (per conversation with RH Helpdesk a couple of years ago.) My understanding of GRUB is that it looks at the 1st cylinder of the hard drive to use dual boot.

I currently use a Red Hat 8.0 boot diskette when I want to switch from WIN XP to RH 8.0. My question is that when I upgrade to Fedora Core 3 on my second hard drive, can I use my existing boot diskette that was created when using RH 8.0 or do I have to make a new boot diskette after I upgrade to Fedora Core 3?? And if that is the case, what are the commands to create new boot diskette for FC3 after upgrade has taken place.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Fedora Core 3 Install program will ask you, at some point if you
want to make a boot floppy, so just stick the disk in and say yes.

Also, I would highly recommend installing Fedora from scratch
instead of going for the "upgrade previous redhat or fedora" option.

If you have alot of important stuff in your home directory, back it up
first.

My experience with the "upgrade" was that it was flakey and alot
of stuff didn't work anymore. Just nuking redhat and allowing the fedora
installer to format those partitions and install from scratch worked much
much better.

I learned, from that experience, to keep back up copies of all the config
files I messed around with so I could save a little work.