Re: cfdisk

[Qian Gong <q.gong@tue.nl>]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:05:38PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   I'm fooling around with cfdisk and wanted to ask the superiors about 
> something. I plan to dual boot this with windows 2000. On the first 
> partition because I've had disatrous results when windows is NOT on the 
> first partition. Anyhow, now I've created a boot partition and after I 
> enter the size, a new menu pops up with Beginning, End, and Cancel. Since 
> there is already a first partition, do I now choose End?
>  I'll also need to create the swap and root partition. What do I choose 
> when this menu pops out again? All help is greatly appreciated.
> 

"Beginning" means the beginning point of the free spaces, not the whole
disk. In you case, it's the point just after the first partition. "End"
means the end point of the free space. Normally people choose
"Beginning".

Good luck,

Qian