Sometime Today, Kinjal Sonpal assembled some asciibets to say:
If I install Linux in the extended partition, will i be able to boot using lilo or some other boot manager tool ? and i also didn't understand what did u mean by
Yes.
put your boot image on the windows partition
Do u mean to say *put boot image in the second windows partittion* ?
No, on the first. Your boot image is just a file (vmlinuz or bzImage or whatever you called it). You should copy it to your windows partition, and tell lilo to find it there. You will also be able to use loadlin to boot then.
I am planning to install Debian Distro, for which, I believe it needs around 3-4 partitions for /usr, /bin, etc. along with the regular swap and the root partitions .. So, shud I keep all these partitions as extended partitions ?
Yes. Linux partitions can be anywhere. Even spread out on multiple disks (single partition on multiple disks is also possible).
BTW, are there any good docs regarding this topic ? I'd gone thru' man page of lilo but didn't get much explanation regarding the partitions and similar things ..
Possibly the linux installation howto, but I haven't seen it. The best thing you can have is the will to experiment and the will to take risks. Fear of the unknown is the biggest hindrance in such matters.
Philip