Well, I guess my topic says it all. There already are some ways for Linux to share a partiton with DOS/Windows but everybody says the performence is poor. As for NTFS, the read-write support is only in experimental state. Still, your NTFS partition(s) will be readable under Linux but it is obviously impossible to use them for installation.
My suggestion is:
1. Free unpartioned space for Linux. I recommmend Partition Magic, which sadly is commercial software. Well, there are cracks available but I din't tell you that.
2.Make two partions(some make even more) for the Linux root directory and another one for swap space. The root partition should be the first logical or a physical one in order to be bootable.
3.Format the new partitions as ext2 ext3 or as another Linux filesystem.
4.Install
Good Luck!, you may need some
