multi operationg systems/partitions

[boink0r]

this may be in the wrong forum, if it is apologies in advance.

i want to install a distro of linux on my notebook, and i have some questions on possible conflicts. the current setup is as follows

1 hard drive, 2 partitions

partition 1 (c drive) is windows longhorn

partition 2 (f drive) is windows xp pro

my question is, if i delete the longhorn partition and install linux in its space, will it affect my ability to boot to xp because its on the secondary partition? or is there something similar to boot.ini in linux.

the other option would be to delete both and install windows on the main partition and linux on the secondary.

any thoughts?

[kenkueh]

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