[plug] Dual Booting

[I am the LinuxAlien]

Win2k complained when i tried it, it insisted on a boot partition
Tim
At 07:26 PM 19/03/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>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.

LinuxAlien

Riverton, Perth, WA