I usually have the following on my system
hda1 (windows C)
hda2 (/boot)
hda4 (extended)
hda5 (windows D)
hda6 (windows E)
hda7 (windows F)
hda8 (/)
hda9 (swap)

I do this, because in the past, lilo required to be below the 1024 cylinder boundery. Nowadays I'm using grub, which doesn't have the problem, but it is installed on the /boot partition anyways.

The ultimate advantage of ths setup is, that I set /dev/hda2 active and can use gub to boot linux or windows. If I damange my linux (like now) I can still use grub to boot windows.
If I decide (like now) to reformat /dev/hda2 and start over again, I simply set /dev/hda1 active and Windows can boot by itself again, since nothing was modified.


Now I want to install Knoppix 3.7 to the HDD and want to use:
1) GRUB insteat lilo
2) Place grub in /dev/hda2 and not in /dev/hda8 like the installer does it.

I manually changed the config file before I did the install. But for option (2) I don't have any glue that doing it per hand myself, when the install is finished.

Sincerly, Art