How long does it takes to install boot camp?

Hi,
I am short in time so i would like to know how much time does it takes to install bootcamp, by this i mean partitioning, installing windows xp and the drivers.
Thanx

I was going by my own experience of course, never having used XP
first to get to the SP1 release, then updates since then
And, based on reading threads on forum, it seems like a backup snapshot/image before taking some steps would be.... helpful insurance.
Installing can go quite quick, at one time only took 20-30 minutes, but has grown since then, and with my Mac Pro rig, I've run into some impossible confflicts (remove graphic card A until I get through SP1) which was another incentive to getting new installer disc.
At one point, I was 'sure' it was my MS 4000 keyboard, or bad mouse cord, or the Sonnet Tempo E2P, and when I STILL had trouble....??? pull the 9800GTX - that's no fun
One of my hard drives even new, was "dying" from bad sectors that no one could find to fix so I needed a 2nd install to fix the first it seemed. And while Ultimate Vista installed okay, Home Premium gave fits, so I turned to Business (I do like to play and experiment, found that Premium only supports one physical cpu though).
Two years ago I was running the RC1 'beta' of Vista. A year ago, Vista SP1's RC. Two years of updates to plow through.
One thing that slows down the updating, it is very highly compressed. 300MB is a lot and can take couple GBs as it is uncompressed, then used to update and patch and puts a strain on hard drive and cpu. Vista SP1 could require up to 7GB of temp space, used only during the update and then returned. 64-bit was estimated to require even double. And your hard drive churning away.

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