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On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:48:33 -0700, ray
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:08:51 -0800, chevysrock39 Try Fedora Core 4 or Ubuntu. With any Linux distribution you'll need several parbreastions, you should also make a spare parbreastion so that you...
I disagree with your advice about ParbreastionMagic. For resizing an NTFS parbreastion it's much safer to use a Windows based tool then a Linux based one. The NTFS support in Linux is problematic because the NTFS structures had to be reversed engineered. Also not all Linux installers have the capability of resizing an NTFS parbreastion. The disk tool in the Mandriva installer can do it, the one in Fedora Core can't.
As for BootMagic, there are reasons to use it and reasons not to. GRUB is a better bootloader then BootMagic and GRUB doesn't require a special parbreastion. However I find myself using BootMagic on my multiboot systems when I have Windows on the box (most of my systems are Linux only but my desktop-laptop systems have small Windows parbreastions). The reason for using a Windows based primary BootLoader is that I know I'm never ever going to upgrade the Windows parbreastion. The Linux parbreastions are constantly being replaced because there is always a new distribution to try or the current favorite has been updated (FC5 is due in two weeks, I can't wait). Because I have multiple Linux distros on every box I have to remember which one is the primary (i.e. the one that gets the MBR) and which are secondary (put GRUB in the root parbreastion). By using BootMagic I know that all of the Linux distros are secondary.