The Ubuntu 10.04 partitioning/installation screens frightened me a bit, because
the first few did not show hdb, which is where I wanted to install. hda has XP,
which is not to be destroyed (yet).

Above comment gave me enough courage to proceed, hdb did show up, and
the dual-boot installation is now completed, with hdb partitioned with / and
swap partitions, for now.

Two more questions:

1. Above advised having a partition for /home, so I'd like to do that. hdb
is a 40 GB drive, so maybe 1 GB for swap, 15 for /, and 24 for /home ?? What do
you folks do?

2. Does Gparted provide for repartition without re-installing?