Dual Boot

So I had an old laptop laying around, a Dell Inspiron 1100, and wanted to get some usefulness out of it. Decided to give the dual boot thing a shot. Step one Windows XP Pro. Standard load and partitioning the Hard Drive. Pretty easy so far, then Ubuntu goes on works great, no problems thus far, make sure you partion out a decent Swap drive and your up and running. No issues thus far, stability is good, and the Grub Loader works like a champ on boot. The biggest pain in the ass was getting the DVD codecs loaded, but a quick search on the ubuntu forums and I'm good to go.