jamie - 10:23 pm on Jan 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

yep i've now got it sorted. hallelujah!

grub is installed to hda (my primary master, overwriting the windows mbr) and when i boot up i get the choice of OS.

the real key was to deactivate the second hard drive (the primary slave which has RH8 on it) in the device manager in windows. that way win2k never knows linux exists and i haven't had to rename partitions.

thanks to everyone for help.

now i just have to configure the adsl usb modem, the dual monitor setup, my network card and the webserver - the fun is just starting ;)

cheers all!