My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the
weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine
overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I
wanted to when I bought it.

Data:

80GB hard drive
2GB DRAM

Questions:

1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer
to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues?

2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive
up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using
20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering:

sda1 -> /boot = 50MB
sda2 -> swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5%
of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.)
sda3 -> /var = 2GB
sda4 ==extended
sda5 -> / balance of Linux side, say 55GB
sda6 == Windows drive C:

Any and all comments and ideas welcomed.

Thanks,
Mark
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