Mike McCarty wrote:
Does CentOS consider itself an upgrade of FC2? I thought I would have to do a fresh install.
OTOH, I *do* want to preserve my WinXP partitions.
You can do a fresh install with CentOS _and_ preserve your XP partitions. Just don't flag those partitions for format.
The custom install option (not server, not workstation, etc) is your friend.