Installing XP onto my MB

So I only have an 80 G hard drive in my macbook. If I install windows xp using paralells or boot camp how much of my hard drive is that going to take up?

Here is the link :
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
Make sure you check your available space first, because 80 Gb doesn't mean you have 'em all.
In addition to my first post, you need at least 10 Gb of free space when you start setting up boot camp as the sites told you, but during the create partition process you can set as litle as 5 Gb for that partition:
Creating a Partition for Windows XP
Windows XP requires its own partition on your computer’s internal startup disk. Boot
Camp Assistant creates a second partition on your startup disk for the Windows XP
operating system. You can set the size of the new partition from a minimum of 5 GB to
a maximum of 5 GB less than the total free space available.
Good Luck.

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