On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Ryan wrote:
> 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 have had no problem putting linux in primary partitions as long as the
Windows partition comes first, and LILO worked fine. Used to be a little
problem with 1024 cylinders limit, but lba32 and modern BIOSes took care
of that.
> I donno about win2k, it won't install on my box.
I haven't tried, but a linux partition resembles an uninitialized
partition to a foreign operating system. I don't think even the fascist
MacOS would automatically format extra partitions, so it should work.
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