In building a dual (or multi-boot system) one must first install the least tolerant, least flexible, least reliable, least friendly, least configurable, most inferior of operating systems... can you see where I'm heading with this? Good. Ok, after you spend around 1.5 hrs installing the virus susceptible bloatware from Redmond onto your harddrive, then install the other OS's. ------------------------------------------------ john@superdawg [/home/john] ------------------------------------------------ --> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 16G 11G 4.9G 68% / tmpfs 236M 32K 236M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 9.8G 7.3G 2.6G 74% /windows/C /dev/hda5 30G 29G 439M 99% /windows/D ------------------------------------------------ john@superdawg [/home/john] ------------------------------------------------ --> /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7296. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 1276 5099 30716280 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 5100 7198 16860217+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 7199 7296 787185 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda5 1276 5099 30716248+ b W95 FAT32 Command (m for help): m Command action a toggle a bootable flag b edit bsd disklabel c toggle the dos compatibility flag d delete a partition l list known partition types m print this menu n add a new partition o create a new empty DOS partition table p print the partition table q quit without saving changes s create a new empty Sun disklabel t change a partition's system id u change display/entry units v verify the partition table w write table to disk and exit x extra functionality (experts only) Command (m for help): l 0 Empty 1c Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid 1 FAT12 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 75 PC/IX be Solaris boot 2 XENIX root 24 NEC DOS 80 Old Minix c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 3 XENIX usr 39 Plan 9 81 Minix / old Lin c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 4 FAT16 <32M 3c PartitionMagic 82 Linux swap / So c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 5 Extended 40 Venix 80286 83 Linux c7 Syrinx 6 FAT16 41 PPC PReP Boot 84 OS/2 hidden C: da Non-FS data 7 HPFS/NTFS 42 SFS 85 Linux extended db CP/M / CTOS / . 8 AIX 4d QNX4.x 86 NTFS volume set de Dell Utility 9 AIX bootable 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 87 NTFS volume set df BootIt a OS/2 Boot Manag 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM e1 DOS access b W95 FAT32 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e3 DOS R/O c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e4 SpeedStor e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS eb BeOS fs f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi ee EFI GPT 10 OPUS 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ef EFI (FAT-12/16/ 11 Hidden FAT12 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD f0 Linux/PA-RISC b 12 Compaq diagnost 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f1 SpeedStor 14 Hidden FAT16 <3 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f4 SpeedStor 16 Hidden FAT16 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f2 DOS secondary 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot fd Linux raid auto 18 AST SmartSleep 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fe LANstep 1b Hidden W95 FAT3 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap ff BBT Command (m for help): q