I know it's an obvious solution but I figure I'll put it out there anyway just in case ... you can just get another hard drive for Linux and install that as well. As clj said, it's a bit more involved to get one hard drive to be dual bootable if XP is already installed. I have no idea about Vista but I assume it's a similar process.

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