Its obviously from the replies not many of you have every installed or used Linux in your life.

When you don't know the answer to a question you should not reply.

The original user is correct when Linux is the ONLY partition on a system it can cause problems with the windows installer. This is a known and documented problem by many vendors including Dell.

The windows installer will read "inspecting system configuration" and then give you a black screen and nothing will happen, this has absolutely nothing to do with the users hardware or performance of the system.

By simply booting of the installer CD and using the fdisk command and removing all the linux partitions the Windows installer will work.

Windows is NOT as good as linux at removing partitions unlike another member had commented.

This is NOT a problem on all systems, however almost every new Dell system has this problem I have ever worked on had this problem if Linux was installed on the primary partition of the disk.

I have a dell dimenstion 5150 and have isntalled many distros on it. Never had any problems.

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Hello all.
I am a frosterated New Fedora user whom can't get the
wireless work with a Dell inspirion 8200 laptop. Even no drivers found with 2-different PCMCIA cards ..so at least I can use those.
I like to ( for last time)try to use Linux by installing Ubuntu instead
of Fedora Core 6. If that does not work I am going back to Windows. Can you please help me with the below 2-requests?!
1. How to install Ubuntu on top of Fedora on the laptop?
2.If installation did not work ,how can I make a Fdisk(floppy)
to remove linux when my laptop does not have a floppy drive?
I tried the windows XP installtion CD to fix all this..but after
over 6-hrs nothing happened..black screen.I think I was patient
enough.

Thank you all for your time.
P.S> I really would like to learn Linux. Please help with the
number one concern at least if you can..

ubuntu has far better wireless support than fedora.

You should be abke to install ubuntu over fedora during the ubuntu install

Hey there. thanks for your response. As we speak ,I have Ubuntu on one single CD(beats Fedora's 6-CD's)in the laptop after choosing the CD Boot order first. Then once you get into the Desktop with Ubuntu being the OS, you will see an "INSTALL" Icon on the Desktop. Click on it to install Ubuntu...I have so far passed the partition,etc and its in the mids of installing ..will update shortly for the ones whom have the same problem as I do.
Thanks

yes, to setup your wireless by the way, use the network manager applet in the system tray (works kinda like the xp wireless one). If it doesnt work then you will need to find drivers.

If you are unable to find native linux drivers for your wireless card (sometimes they are hard to find, if the OS doesn't detect your card immediately).

Then you are going to want to look into http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/

Ndiswrapper allows you to run your Windows drivers inside of Linux, I have used this application countless times on laptops which where using usb wireless cards, and it works perfectly.

If you need help feel free to post you message here I will do my best to help you.