A question on installing - FC5 32bit and M$Win2000

[Timothy Murphy]

Mauriat Miranda wrote:

>> > 1) installing Win2000 first OR FC5_32 first
>>
>> Installing Win2K first is recommended, although the other way around is
>> also possible.  Note that Win's boot disk and /boot must be primary
>> partitions.
> 
> To add, a /boot partition is not required. Linux can boot from either
> a primary partition or a logical partition.

A /boot partition is not required,
but there is an overwhelmingly strong reason for having one
on a dual boot system.

If you don't, and something goes wrong when updating Fedora
you are in a mess,
as the grub files will not be available.

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