Partitioning oddity

Fenster

Right now I'm currently setting up my laptop as a dual-boot machine between Fedora (might switch to Ubuntu though) and Windows XP Pro. I've Fedora currently installed and a setup. Its in three partitions as usual. The free space is at the end of the hard drive. However, when I tried to install Windows last night, it kept telling me that I in fact had four primary partitions, so it had to abort. This is decidedly odd:

[root@localhost root]# /sbin/fdisk -l
 
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14        2307    18426555   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            2308        2355      385560   82  Linux swap

Now unless I'm missing something obvious, such as Windows not liking being installed at the end of a hard drive, I only have three partitions.

Would anyone here be able to shed light on such an oddity?

Ciaran500

I have very little experience with dual booting but I always heard the you should install XP first then linux.

Hope this helps

Fenster

Sorta looks like its just not happy at the end. I'll give 2k a whizz later to see if I get any different effect.