(OT) Fedora Core 3 i386 newbie upgrade?

[Brian Durant]

I have the chance of installing Fedora Core on a Dell laptop (PP10L) as 
a dual-boot system with XP. Since I have a freebie DVD with Core 3 i386 
on it, I was wondering if i could use that to install from and then just 
do a 'yum update' over a wireless network to bring the system up to Core 
4, rather than downloading a bunch of .iso files that I burn once, use 
the CD's once and then throw them away?

The computer is one that my wife got through work about a year ago and 
never uses. For this reason, I am not afraid of losing data as long as 
XP boots, but installing GRUB or LILO does something to the MBR so XP 
can't boot, doesn't it? What can be done about that?

This is one area where it seems to me that Fedora has fallen behind 
Debian based systems. There is a real lack of Fedora based live-CD's 
that you can install a system from.

Cheers,

Brian