on the suggesion of my potna jae choi, i picked up an hp pavillion ze5300. just finished gutting it out (removing the preinstalled winXP Home), repartitioned, and got redhat 9.0 & XP happily dual booting! i’m gonna write a quick doc on how to get it going since it was less than obvious–the doc’ll basically be an amalgamation of the different advices that i found on the Net…

gotta go…continuing config :)