Yo yo Novell experts!

With a 6.5 server I pre-partitioned a drive, it has standard MS-DOS partition table, 3 partitions, one NTFS for Windows Server, one Netware, one Linux (this is due to this server gonna be dual boot).

Now it seems lil novell does not really want to see the partition table unless I initialize the disk from it (in which case it wipes all data and might only be usable for novell afterwards), is there any trick to get around this or shall I just go the lazy way and dedicate the disk for this OS?