Trying to setup dualboot with WinXP and Fedora

I am trying to setup my FX7, now with 2x 80G HDs, with WinXP on HD1, and HD2 partitioned into a 50 G Windows partition and a 30G Linux partition. Heres what I did so far.

1> I started with Ubuntu but it wants the entire HD2 and I don't want nor need 80g for my Linux partition. But it did install Grub and both WinXP and Ubuntu did work just fine (linux editing for graphic settings, drivers etc. not withstanding)
2> Removed Ubuntu and Grub. Ubuntu does not have a GUI on their server release which I want. Yes I am spoiled by Red Hat.
3> None of our Enterprise Red Hat releases will install on this FX7.
4> Downloaded the Latest Fedora Core 5 release (5 cds plus recovery).
5> Fedora appears to go thru the install process and even allows me to partition HD2 (refered to a /dev/sdb) into the 2 partitions I wanted.
6> Installation completes and Lappy reboots straight into windows. Used recover disk and tried to manually install Grub. No Go, error "No BIOS entry for /dev/sdb1". hmm.
7> fdisk HD2.
8> Start Fedora installation over using all of HD2 as a single partition. No Go. Still no Grub install.

Basically, all I want is Fedora on a 30G partition on my Lappy and the remaining 50 G as extra storage for WinXP. As you can see from my Avatar to the left, I work in a Data Center and having a Linux Distro on my lappy will be very helpfull to me but most of the Corporate Apps are for WinXP so I cann't get away from that (Not to mention BF2 and D&D Online don't have LInux clients to my knowledge).

If anyone has tried something simular and got it to work, I would be greatly appreciated if you could share how you to got it working.

Ubuntu does not have a GUI on their server release which I want. Yes I am spoiled by Red Hat. I did try the desktop release but got the same results. Guess this is what I get for trying to do this during the week our Red Hat cert. guru is on vacation.

As far as the partitions go, HD2 ended up being:

/dev/sdb1 ---> /ext3 (boot) ~100M
/dev/sdb2 ---> / (linux) ~29M
/dev/sdb3 ---> NTFS (Windows) ~50G

The above works with Ubuntu but its not what I want, Fedora is what I want and with the same partitioning I don't even get the Grub menu.

Before you ask , I do have to remove Grub as it looks for the Ubuntu Partition and Fedora does its own thing and I get an "error 17" from Grub afterwards. But Fedora indicates that it installs Grub on /dev/sda1.

np, it helped to get more information out there so that someone else might be able to decipher my problem, which is probably human error on my part. :<

Rei86, you are correct, XP needs installed first in any instance. But as you can read in #1 from my first post, I got Ubuntu and XP to work just fine. Fedora is what I want, so heres some new information of steps I have tried since last post

1> fdisk'd both drives.
2> Partitioned drive 1 into a 50G & 30G slices. Partitioned drive 2 into 1 80G slice.
3> Installed XP on the Drive 1 50G partition & Fedora on Drive 1 30G partition.
4> At thist point Grub worked as well as Fedora and XP. Formated drive 2 for XP use and all was good to go. Looks like Fedora has an issue with being installed on Drive 2 when drive 1 is the boot disk.
5> fdisk'd both drives again and installed XP in a standard non-raid setup.

All is currently working just fine with only XP installed.

Next I am going to setup a striped RAID config and see if Fedora will work like this. Have to wait for delivery of an external USB Floppy before I can proceed (should arrive tomorrow).

Never got this to work the way I liked. Currently I am Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu in a configuration simular to that of what I posted on 09-14-2006. Have been in that configuration for the past few months and all is fine in that respect.

As far as having a Fedora based box. I took an old HP laptop I had laying around and configured it to be solely Fedora. Backback gets a little heavy logging around the FX7 and a smaller 15" HP in it.