Windows and Linux can co-exist on the same disk drive without problems. I have windows 95 and debian on different partitions of the same disk. Windows / dos will ignore partition types 81, 82 ,83 etc. What you need to do is to first partition the virgin disk under windows (leaving room for linux!) then add your linux partitions using linux fdisk. The reason is to insure that MS fdisk doesn't do the job wrong and grab part of the linux partitions. (I have heard that MS fdisk can try to make partitions not using whole number of cylinders while linux fdisk always rounds up to a whole cylinder.) Also installing windows first allows you to set up lilo to use the MBA and boot windows as the second (or first) choice. (Seems weird having lilo boot windows by default, but I have done this!).
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