Dual booting XP and Debian

Problem:
You want to play with Debian, but dont have another computer, and you don't want to lose all you stuff in Windows.

Solution:
Set up a dual booting system. "How do I do this?" you may ask. Read on...

1. First make sure you have some unallocated space on your hard drive, or have another hard drive installed (size is your preference, but if you change your current partition, make sure to leave adequate enough room to work with windows)
You can do these kind of changes using partition magic.

I have a 10gb drive installed on my laptop i tried this on.
I made my windows partition 6gb and unallocated space around 3.5gb.

2. Boot to the debian install cd.
follow the directions in the installing debian post.
When you get to the partitioning part, choose the free space below the existing primary partition and hit enter.
Then choose "automatically partition the free space" and "all files in one partition" on the next screen.

Now you should see
a "#1 Primary" partition formatted as FAT or NTFS which will be your Windows partition
and a "#2 Primary" partition which is the root partition for your Debian installation
and a logical swap partition (#5).
Now finish partition and write changes to disk.
answer "yes" at the confirmation screen.

When it asks you if you want to install grub to the MBR say "yes".

3. Continue debian installation as per the other post.

when you finish your grub bootloader will come up when you turn on the computer. It will give you choices for Debian and windows.

If you want to change the order of the items or the default boot kernel or time limit or anything with grub, you just have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file on the debian partition.