triple boot

[Dswissmiss]

Hi guys,
I'm thinking of trying out both debian and slackware on the same machine, but was wondering about some things:
I have the debian beta installer, does it automatically install grub, or can I choose?
I have some unused space on my ntfs partition which I will, um...partition, so do I need another swap space?

Thank you
Dswissmiss

[mcdougrs]

You shouldn't need another swap partition. As far as the installer thing goes I don't know that one.

[Dswissmiss]

thanx...

ok, I made my ntfs drive smaller with partition magic... now I try to format the unused partition in slackware but its not working (tried installing debian, but it saw the free space as "unusable&quot.
when I do cfdisk, I get a fatal error, cannot open disk drive, and I've been trying to download qparted with no luck either. so what is the easiest way to format this unused space?

Thank you

[Tyr_7BE]

Does plain old fdisk work? You might need to set the partition type using fdisk.

[GhostDawg]

You should have been able to use XP to create the blank space also.

[Dswissmiss]

fdisk works, but I don't think it recognizes it, when I press p (print partition table), it doesnt see it and when I press n (add partition) it says that there isn't any unalocated space.
Guess I have to go back into xp for this one.