[plug] Dual Booting

[Cameron Patrick]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:19:06PM +0800, I am the LinuxAlien wrote:

| Linux doesn't have to be before the 1024 cylinder but windows has to
| be the the first partition or in 2000 and xp just need a small boot
| partition as the first partition.

Not convinced.  On my machine (Win2K + Debian):

(root at erdos /home/cameron) fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1         3     24066   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             4      5358  43014037+   5  Extended
/dev/hda3   *      5359      7297  15575017+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda5             4        82    634536   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6            83      2635  20506941    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda7          2636      3608   7815591   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          3609      5358  14056843+  83  Linux

CP.