I installed XP Pro today and decided to put the OS on a separate partition.
When asked by the installation wizard how to partition I chose to allocate 8
GB for XP.  It never asked me what to do with the remaining unallocated
space of the 80 GB drive.  I subsequently discovered Disk Manager and see
how to do something with the remaining space.  I thinking I should set it up
with as an extended partition and put some logical drives there.    Is there
a better strategy?

I would like to save about 5 GB for LINUX and eventually learn how to dual
boot and how to use LINUX.   Does LINUX need to be in a separate partition
or can it be in a logical drive in the extended partition?

Someone has mentioned placing the swap file in it's own drive separate from
the primary partition, can that just be in a logical drive or again must it
be in a partition?

Well everything seems to going well up to this point so I gratefully await
the advice of the list.

Thanks in advance,

Bob Warasila
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