Hi Tony,
just a few comments, first, the things already said are my opinion. But
one thing to note, don't try to switch between Windows and Linux via
BIOS. I did that with my SCSI-system, and it's plain pain. That's
because linux and windows identify the drives differently. So don't
change the order of drives by bios.
I use lilo at home with no problems, at the office we use loadlin. It's
just plain cool to have a little penguin icon on your desktop to boot
linux :-)
Just a last comment on partitions. A lot of things tend to go on the
/opt-tree. Thats more or less religion, some folks like /usr/local for
extra stuff, I like /opt. Some distributions use /opt/kde and /opt/gnome
by default (SuSE does) for KDE and GNOME. These get large! I tend to
like the opt-thing because both KDE and GNOME are rapidly evolving, so
cleaning up the tree is easier in /opt/gnome than stripping all gnome
and kde and docbook and ... stuff.

Axel

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