Partitions, MBR, etc.

[Lorie Obal]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Rick wrote:

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If you are experimenting with installing different distributions, you 
might want to protect your other partitions by putting a small "sacrifice" 
i.e. a "moat" partition between your last FAT partition and your new 
install.

I had a bad experience once with Mandrake grabbing the last FAT partition 
during the install even though I had specified "use pre-existing Linux 
partitions". A buffer zone came in handy.

-Lorie