> I'm going to do a fresh install of Mandrake 8.1 on a dual boot system with > WinXP. I've read that making a 7mg /boot partition makes it easy to use > the Windows boot.ini file to choose operating systems. you don't need that, with recent versions of LILO, and a BIOS made in the last few years. the way it works (if I remember correctly..) is that you make your / partition the location of the linux MBR; then use dd to take the first 512 bytes of that, and make your boot file from it. so basically: dd if=/dev/hda2 of=linboot.img bs=512 count=1 then copy the resulting 512-byte linboot.img file to your windows partition, and add an entry in your boot.ini file for it. I seem to remember actually doing this myself, at some point; and it was really simple and quick to do. at that point, Linux becomes one of the options on your (NT|w2k|xp) boot menu. Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700