WC> At least 3/4's of my new drive will be devoted to Linux.
 WC> With a virgin drive I'll be able to create 2 FAT 32's for Windows and
 WC> Windows swap and go ape with partitioning up the rest of the drive
 WC> using Linux's fdisk off a bootable floppy.
 WC> I'll have one Linux swap at the recommended 128 Meg for those running
 WC> 256 M RAM and the rest will be carved up for various distributions.
 WC> First thing in the Windows partition will be a large space holding file
 WC> so I can later delete it,after Window install and place Linux boot
 WC> routines there below 1024 cylinders Whale.mov at over 11 meg ought
 WC> to do well though I'll rename it aale.mov for defrag purposes.
 WC> It's that Oregon highway patrol video of an inept attempt to blow
 WC> up a dead whale that washed ashore that Dave Barry wrote about,
 WC> it's a hoot. Then set Windows defrag so it doesn't optimize for speed
 WC> so Windows doesn't displace the Linux boot routines.

There are two other ways to do it.

one is to make a small primary linux partiton for the boot files before the
first FAT partition.

so hda1 is the linux boot files hda2 is the FAT32 C: drive and hda5 the
second FAT32 (D:)  and hda6 and up etc are the linux partitions.

the other way is to put the linux boot files on the FAT drive and use
the windows boot menu to boot dos 7.10 and from there use loadlin.exe to
boot linux.

doing it your way, IIRC if you set the S file attdibute defrag will leave
the file in place.

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