Windows will overwrite the MBR anytime you install/upgrade it. (Isn't that nice of it?) So the real question is what boot loader do you want to use? You can boot Linux from the NT boot loader (probally passes control to lilo. Never done it myself.) or boot NT with lilo. I usually go with the two drive soultion, with linux on the primiary and windows on the secondary. To boot Windows, lilo remaps the hard drives. Pretty slick that way, I can install Windows and reinstall windows all I like and not worry about creating a linux rescue disk. On one disk, manually partition. One big chunck for Windows as the primiary partition, and smaller chunks in an extended partion for linux. (If you're going to have a centeralized NFS/SAMBA server you may just want to have root and usr partitions for linux. 500mb or so for /, 2gb or more for use. NFS mount the home directories from the main server. -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: andyzb.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 367 bytes Desc: Card for Andy Zbikowski Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010307/e9bbad2e/andyzb.vcf