On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06:47 am, you wrote: > If you need to create a new partition on a Windows 2000 machine to add > Linux in order to dual boot, does it make any difference whether you > make a new primary partition or a new extended partition? What are the > relative advantages and disadvantages between using an extended vs. a > primary partition for Linux? > > Thank you. > > Bob
Windows 9x/ME gets a bit pissed off if you use more then one primary partition on a hard drive, but can live with it if you use BootMagic, but won't boot with LILO. I donno about win2k, it won't install on my box.
