limahotel said:
> With a dual boot, is the boot loader on the primary partition (where
> Windows
> is located)? If so, do I still need to set aside the 100M partition
> for
> /boot? or can I just create two partitions for Linux - the swap (256M
> this
> case) and the remaining space for all the rest?
> Thanks.
/boot is where the kernel resides. The boot loader is something
different and it resides in the mbr or the first 512 bytes of the
disk. If you use grub for your bootloader there are actually three
parts, the part in the mbr, the first stage and second stage of the
bootloader which in FC3 reside in /boot/grub. There is also the
menu.lst which allows you to choose between the two systems, and
possibly two or more kernels.
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