linux on a laptop

[Anonymous]

Greetings all, i am tryin to put linux on one of my laptops that i need
win98 on as well,.. i have win98 on it and running,.. so i took part of
the d: drive and spilt it in half giving almost 900M for linux...

but the problem is after i got it to install,i couldn't get it to boot
into linux on the first boot after using the boot/root floppies after the
install.  I had heard somewhere the linux had to be somewhere with the
first 1024 of the drive, is this true?

Cheers,

Qaz