(I hope) a simple question about installation

[Damon Siefert]

I'm trying to figure out whether or not LILO's (and BIOS') 1024th 
cylinder limit for boot partitions still exists. Some people in 
newsgroups (as well as some HOW-TOs) seem to think that its no longer an 
issue, but others have categorically stated that it is necessary to have 
ones' boot partition in the first 8.4 gigs. I'm planning to install RH 
7.1 on a 40 gig hard-drive (new hardware, so any issues relating to old 
BIOSes or hard drives shouldn't really matter) and I want to know 
whether I'll have to disturb my current windows partition beyond 
shrinking it a little.

Damon