Hallo,
I have a disk which has the following partition table :

/dev/hda1 1 45772 23069056+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 45773 59560 6949152 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 * 45773 59560 6949120+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

My Suse's root ( / ) is mounted on hda1.
my Suse's /boot is mounted from hdb1

Now, I can not install m$ winxp :-( because the w95 fat partition is on the extended partition.

Can I change manually the partition table so that the first partition starts as 45773 and the second at 1 ?
so it will look that way :

/dev/hda1 * 45773 59560 6949120+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1 45772 23069056+ 83 Linux


or do the partitions must be in following order?

Cheers,
Ron

Since all you have in the extended is the one FAT32 logical the easiest solution would be to delete both hda5 and hda2. Create a new hda2 that is a primary and change its boot flag to active. The windows partition does not have to be hda1.