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Default Re: Need help with partitioning for dual install

Ignore the free
sda2 is the same thing. You need to create logical Partitions inside sda2.
Actually sda2 itself does not hold any information, but the logical partitions you create within it do.
So in sda2 create the usual

swap (2x RAM)
/ (15GB) should be sufficient
/home (as much as possible)

use ext3 format for the file system on / and /home. swap is just swap.

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I forgot to mention - edit the partition sda1, do not format, but set a mount point as:
/WIN_XP

Oh and make sure you set the grub bootloader to install to MBR only
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