First, I downloaded GParted free utility to repartition my HD. I reduced my current Windows boot partition to 30gb and left the rest unformated. GParted is a straight-forward FREE program that let you do this. Just boot off the CD that I created off the .iso. Boots with a nice X-windows with the util loaded already. After it's all done, I rebooted to Windows just to make sure that partition still works. Windows ran the diskchk since it thinks the disk is "dirty", but everything is fine after that.
A couple months ago, I requested a ubuntu 7.10 CD. Finally got a chance to put it to use. I booted off the CD. It loaded ubuntu and ran it out of RAM. There's one "install" icon on the desktop and clicking that start the install. I made a mistake and let it choose the biggest partition to install (I should've configured the partition to 30gb and put the rest as a shared storage partition between my windows and linux OSs). While it's installing, I'm free to web-browse using the firefox already loaded. It was by far the easiest Linux install I've experienced (the last time I installed Linux was redhat circa 2003).
That's it! Now I have a dual boot machine in less than an hour.
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