Further on the NTLDR is missing problem I came here with last weekend. I
ended up
using GPARTED to look at my partitions again and confirmed that is was as
expected.
So I dug out the Windows install disks and tried the repair step which
didn't work so I
did a whole new install. A side note, this installation was an upgrade from
W98 to XP,
which kept the Fat32 file system. I was able to use the same disk to upgrade
to NTFS
on this install, and got it reloaded on the first half of the disk. I
couldn't get the drivers disk
to work that I have, I think it was from the W98 set. So I downloaded from
Intel a driver set
and got everything reworking.

However it destroyed the boot section or something of my Linux section. Not
a big thing
again as this is a learning session for me. There is a change I wanted to
incorporate into
this next load. I may have asked this question before, but here goes again.
I have about
14 Gig available for the Linux section. I want to experiment with creating
seperate file systems
or partitions for the Root and what is needed there and then a /Home
partition. If I can remember
my old Unix days we allowed some amount of space for /root and then had
seperate file systems
for other sections of the operating system. This will be a single user
system so I shouldn't need
much but was wondering what would be a good size for the OS and /home for my
stuff.

If there is a web site that I can be directed to for this I would be
interested, but I must say
I have looked at some of the forums on Ubuntu and I can't seem to get the
hang of using them.

Sorry for the bandwidth but I do like some of this leaning stuff.