Linux Wars III

Hooray!

The story so far:

• I used FDISK (DOS) to create a primary DOS partition that was 5GB, and then created an Extended DOS partition and logical disk of 1GB
  
• I formatted the logical disk in the extended partition as FAT32
• I copied the SimplyMEPIS LiveCD to the 1GB partition
• I deleted the 5GB partition. This all may not have been necessary, but I figured I wanted the Linux partition to be at the start of the disk.
• I successfully used linload to launch SimplyMEPIS from the 1GB partition (accompanied by much hooting and hollering)
• I used fdisk (linux) to create a 4GB Linux (type 83) partition, and a 196MB Linux-swap partition (as the laptop has 196MB RAM) (this all because I believe I can't simply tell it to use the whole disk, since I'm installing from a partition on the same disk)
• The "Install MEPIS on Hard Drive" utility is currently running, installing to the aforementioned partitions

It all looks very, very good for now (although I'm a bit worried about which partition will end up being active, as I now realize I didn't mark the primary Linux partition active). More later.