Dual Booting Windows 98 & gentoo/debian

[d3c3it]

Hi
This sounds a very stupid question *and ive searched on google and the board and only found bits and pieces to my problem*
i want to do a dual boot with win98 & gentoo (or debian not decided yet) on my toshiba sat 1800-354S laptop.
its got a 14gb now my problem is i dont know <b>exactly</b> how im meant to partition it.
so far ive gathered that im meant to set the drive up like this
1.5gb Primary partition - For Win98 FAT32 (its only for using the modem and tvout on the laptop)
12.5gb Extended partition
100mb Logical partition - Boot Partition ext3
512mb Logical partition - Swap Linux Swap
Rest Logical partition - root ext3

now is that right? or would i have to make the boot a primary partition?

Thanks to anyone that answers
i know this is extremely newbie computer questions but ive never dualbooted before *never had need to* and want to get things right im not a complete retard, honest;)

[homey]

Put the win98 onto the first primary partition and leave the rest of the drive blank until you start the linux install. You have room for a total of four primary partitions or 3 primary and one extended partition. With that in mind use the linux partitioning tools fdisk or cfdisk to create the /boot and / partitions as primary then create an extended partition which can hold the /swap.

There are plenty of other ways to setup the partitions. I usually just make a / and /swap partition then have the grub or lilo use the MBR.

[d3c3it]

so basically make a primary partition 1.5gb, format, install win98, install drivers etc
then install whatever linux distro ive decided on:) and setup another 2 primary partitions 1 100mb for boot and 1 for root and then an Extended 512mb for swap!

thanks alot, iknow what im doing now:)

[DMR]

Originally posted by d3c3it
so basically make a primary partition 1.5gb, format, install win98, install drivers etc
then install whatever linux distro ive decided on:) and setup another 2 primary partitions 1 100mb for boot and 1 for root and then an Extended 512mb for swap!

thanks alot, iknow what im doing now:) You can make swap a primary partition as well if you want; DOS/Windows fdisk only allows you to create 1 primary, but as homey said, Linux allows 4 primaries.

:)