Multi-Boot Linux with Windows XP

Installed Fedora and Ubuntu with windows XP. Steps to be taken:
1. Boot from linux CD in CD-Rom
2. During partition, select 'Advanced' checkbox in case of Fedora. In case of Ubuntu use the Guided partitioning option.
3. These install GRUB loaded by default in MBR. But, better option I feel(and did) is to install the GRUB loader in the boot partition of the linux itself and take a copy of the boot part using tool like bootpart and add it to the boot.ini of the windows.

Issues in installing Ubuntu:
- Installation of ubuntu is in two parts. First base image is installed and then additional packages are installed. After the base images were installed, it made the linux partition as "Active" partition. Thus, it is always going to be the GRUB loader which will load the OS. In order to change it back to the windows loader, need to make the windows partition as "Active". One issue I encountered was that after making the windows partition as active and rebooting the system, the other windows partition became hidden. Setting this partition to "UnHide" using partition manager also didn't solve the problem of unhiding this partition. To solve this problem, the GNU "parted" tool of linux came to my help. Using this, I set the windows partition to unhide. Then did a reboot. Now my windows partition became unhidden. GNU parted helped me to solve this issue which even partition magic cannot fix.