Dual Booting and Partitions
Question: In order to dual boot linux and windows, which of the following partitions do I need to have?
/boot
/root
/swap
anonymous
Answer: You need to have /swap (this is the equivalent to having the windows swap file in its own partition - Linux always uses a separate partiton for this). You also need to have / (the root directory is indicated by a slash by itself without the word root).
Whether or not you need yet another partition for /boot depends on how big your hard drive is and the location of the root partition. Provided that the partition containing / actually starts within the first 8Gb of the drive you will not need a separate /boot partition. If / does not start within the first 8Gb of the drive then you will need to create a separate /boot partition that is within the first 8Gb. This partiton will not need to be very large (64Mb should be more than enough).
