I've installed linux on 2 different computers, and both times its really
screwed up the partition. The graphical one usually works, but it
doesn't let you do much. The fdisk that comes with windows usually
doesn't mess up the drive, but it often freezes on some formats.

I've had really good success with the ranish partition manager. I used
it to fix my harddrivers after linux screwed them. It also has its own
boot loader program like lilo. I'm not saying that you shouldn't use
lilo, just set up your partitions first with ranish. Here's one page its
on http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/.

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