hi everybody I have hd 20GB,i made partion to install three operating systems (OS2 warp 3, windows 2000 and LINUX) I divided the HD as follwoing: 1. 25 MB for BOOT magic( FAT Drive) primary 2. 2.0 GB for OS2 (HPFS drive) primary 3. 4.9 GB for windows 2000 (NTFS drive) primary 4.i created extand drive as follwoing: 1. 1.1 GB as FAT and i want this part to use it as sharable partion to access it from OS2 and windows(note it is below 1024 cylender) 2. about 6 GB i created it for linux ext2 and linux swap 3. The other free space i created 2 FAT drives

My understanding is Linux (the root) needs to be in the 1024 limit also. I would partition your drive as follows: 1) 10 mb MAX for Boot manager (I'd prefer it at the end of the drive with no partitions installed) 3) 2gb for W2K with FAT (unless you want NTFS, then do 4gb) (primary) 3) 100 mb Linux root (extended) make sure you format this first or os/2 will bomb after you install linux (due to drive lettering) 4) 1 gb for OS/2 HPFS (extended) 5) 2 gb FAT16 (make several of them 6) create a HPFS partition for OS/2 apps and data 7) create your linux partitions here Good luck. I've done this methodology since '94 and never lost any data or problems.