have you tried other programs?

my guess would be you are hitting a limit, it may be software or hardware. obviously if it is a limit in your hardware (memory), there is not much you can do, unless...

seeing the content of the CD doesn't mean it is correct. is it auto-starting? because if it isn't there is probably an issue with the CD.

to be honest, it sounds like the cd you are using is not the ubuntu cd. if you load the cd while vista is booted normally, does it come up with the live cd menu?

by "hdd" i am referring to your...

is it even trying to boot from the CD? or does it go to your hdd straight away?

are your keystrokes actually registering?

I assume it is booting into vista, and not the vista setup (because...

from what i've read you already have fedora installed? is there some reason this doesn't satisfy your requirements?

as long as you have your bootloader configured correctly it should detect all OSs fine. i am no expert on this, so i wouldn't know how you would go about this specifically, but i would nearly assume...

I personally use ubuntu. There should be tools in xp and fedora which would allow you to partition your hard disk. It should also be possible while installing Belinix.

In my case, I had my HDD...