Laptop DualBoot Win2k NTFS(MBR) + Mandrake any concerns?

[THELAIR]

for work it would benefit me greatly if i was able to dual boot between win2k and linux.

I have a 633mhz laptop with 196 megs of ram on a 10 gig hard drive

i have it setup so far like this

Partition 1 (1.5 gigs) = win2k NTFS
Partition 2 (6.0 gigs) = data FAT32
Partition 3 (2.5 gigs) = other UNFORMATED (put linux in here)

was gonna throw mandrake 7.0 on there.

Question #1)

What boot manager program should i use? I just tried throwing Partition magic 4.0's boot manager onto the laptop in win2k but it didnt work. I see that PM ver 6.0 is out now, any response to that program? What about LILO? How does it work on NTFS? I HAVE to have NTFS for my win2k partition as a requirement for logging into the NT domains.

Question #2)

What gets installed first? I have allready setup win2k, but if i have to i can wipe the drive and start over with the partitions. Ill be spending 70% of my time in windows, and the rest in linux.

Question #3)

The unix environment that my linux distro will be communicating with is SCO UnixWare 7, I can order a 1 license personal evalution copy, however i dont know how well it would work on a laptop. I hear good things about mandrake and have had it on my desktop system but is there another distro that is laptop friendly? Any benefit to going with say Red Hat over Mandrake or anyother distro for that reason?

Hmmm thats it for now

 

[thornc]

Answers

1) You can use either lilo or the NT loader....

2) You can install anyone first, in fact you can keep your w2k installation and install linux,
now. just remember to create a boot floppy. You might need it. But first you must decide which
loader to use...

3) Usually any "commercial" distrobution should be laptop friendly. Use the one that you fancy
most. You should't have any problems communicating beetwen linux and SCO, their both Unix-like Oses. But I don't know SCO so i can't give an opinnion.