Installing Ubuntu 8.10 with Vista SP1

Seems Dual Booting Vista SP1 and Ubuntu 8.10 is surprisingly easy. All I had to do was click on the start menu, right click on "Computer" and choose "manage". From there, click on Disk Management on the left. On the right, you should see your Vista partitions. right click on the one that says "OS" or whatever your normal Drive says (mines is Drive C btw). And choose Shrink volume. I chose to let it shrink to its default size, minus 1000 KB. So for example, mines gave me a value of about 47000, I chose 46000. The reason is because I need that extra 1GB space left for the swap area.

Once I had both of these areas, I left them as free spaced partitions. Then I booted into Ubuntu 8.10 Beta, loaded up the first option (Try Ubuntu without Installing). Made sure everything works (and it did thanks to Dell). Then chose the Install option from the desktop and installed Ubuntu via the "manual" partition editor. With the manual partition editor, all I had to do was select the large free space, put the mount point as "/" and change the file system to "ext3", and then chose the smaller free space, and changed the filesystem on that to "swap". Then I just let ubuntu install it, and in about 10 minutes, I had booted into Ubuntu 8.10 BETA and it's beautiful desktop :)