>Small note. Very few, if any, PC's or current versions of Linux require a
>"/boot" partition of its own. That partition is a legacy of old BIOS
>limitations (of 8 Gig for certain master boot record behavior). If you
>actually need a "/boot" partition, it should be situated very early, if
>not first, on the disk, preferably with no cylinder on that partition
>numbered more than 1023.
>
>Putting it after your XP partition, which is probably more than 8 Gig,
>gains
>a normal user exactly nothing and is a waste of your time and effort.

Absolutely not true at all. Fact is, fewer and fewer distributions
do more than boot with the /boot partition. In other words, after booting
IT IS NOT MOUNTED so should be on a separate partition in reality. Plenty
of folks have had problems booting a system without an allocated /boot
partition. A /boot partition will rarely need more than 100MB of space
allocated to it. READING the installation and use docs for a distribution,
or just looking at how partitions are automatically allocated by a
distribution reveals this simply and easily.