T410: How to dual boot Win 7 with Ubuntu?

I would like to keep my original win 7 config, but to add the option to dual boot into ubuntu 10.10 as my primary OS. Anyone had experience on how to go about doing this?
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Ok, if this is what your asking; I have Win7 and I use the fingerprint reader to log into windows. I installed ubuntu using those steps listed above and it does the partition itself safely. And the fingerprint reader still works for windows. No issues. Just make sure (looking at picture 3 and 4) that you select install alongside others OS's, on picture 4 you can see a slider bar. The first section will show you your windows partition, the 2nd part is what you can move to choose how much space you want ubuntu to partition for itself. So no need to partition it your self.
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