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Mandrake, Win2000, NTFS... ???

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I really don't know Linux actually, but want to learn. Here is the case:

two SCSI HDs.1st HD: 1 primary, windows2000pro, 1 extended. Both NTFS.
2nd HD: 1 primary ext2, 2G. 1 primary ext2, 4G.

I just installed Mandrake 8 (by booting from CDROM). During installation
I was asked sth like "drive is not recognizable or corrupt", then I
let it continue without touching the existing NTFS partitions. After that
it is really smooth. Finally I got Linux on and Mandrake has a GUI boot
menu to let me choose to boot "NT".

My question is: how can this work? my original active partition is NTFS.
How can the linux store booting info? Is MBR not on active partition?
If it is on, how can linux write to NTFS drive? I read a post before, which
says it's complicated to install Linux on NTFS machine -- NTFS volume
should be moved further from the first primary partition. I just don't understand the
whole mechanism.
 
During the installation, did you install LILO? If you did, then LILO can "read" the initial sectors of the NTFS partition to start a Windows NT OS on an NTFS partition.
 
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