Fedora Core 3 installation

From: Churchill, Dave (david_j_churchill_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/28/05

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    I am working on installation Fedora Core 3.

    In my WinXP PC I have (due to history of drive replacements, re-install of
    operating system, etc., 2 physical hard drives, one labeled as "f" in My
    Computer and one partitioned into "d" and "e". The operating system and all
    programs are on "f".

    Is there a way to force the machine to relabel "f" as "c"? I need to do
    this in order to facilitate a Linux installation on my machine and
    subsequently have both operating systems available (choose at boot time).
    The Linux installation software appears to look for a "c" drive but of
    course doesn't find it, then terminates the execution of the install
    program. Or, alternatively, is there a way for the installation software to
    be configured differently (I did not see any user-intiated choice)?

    My multislot flash-memory-card reader has separate letters for each slot,
    one of which is "c". I unplugged the reader and rebooted the machine, but
    "c" was NOT reassigned to the "f" hard disk.

    Dave

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