Dual booting

I'm thinking of setting up my system to dual boot between Windows and Linux. I don't have all that much to work with as far as hard disk space goes. My main drive is 20 gigs, and I have a secondary drive that's 40 gigs. However, the secondary drive is only 5400 rpm, so I don't want to make that a drive I'll boot my OS off of.

What I'd like to do is back up my data, try out one of the Linux-based repartitioning tools (maybe I'll try the SystemRescueCd), split my main hard drive in half, install grub, and then install some Linux distro. If I store most of my files on my secondary drive, I can probably make it with just 10 gigs per system.

Update: I'm considering making this my project for Sunday. To do:

1. Make sure I have replacements for all the software I need, or at least that I can run them under WINE. wikidPad supposedly runs under WINE.
2. Back up!!! Both to my D drive and to CD for extra safety.
3. Pick a linux distro I want to run. Any recommendations?
4. Repartition:
   1. Run the utility CD
   2. resize my Windows partition (I figure I'll split it up 12/8 for Windows/Linux)
   3. Create other partition(s) for Linux to go in. What FS should I run?
   4. install grub
   5. make sure I can boot into Windows
5. Install Linux
6. Tweak until done
   1. Samba, networking, printer (will I not be able to print 2,4, or 8 pages on a sheet anymore? )
   2. Text editors
   3. E-mail
   4. Get WINE working
   5. Get Linux reading my NTFS partition
   6. Play with Gnome and KDE, and maybe other WM

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