Dual boot

> Just for clarification, I currently have Windows 2K only on the laptop, I
> will be formatting the drives and installing XP and Redhat.

When you install XP, just leave some partition space for linux and your
swap. Then install linux and setup lilo/grub to have an XP menu option. As
long as during the linux install you don't touch the XP partition, it should
work flawlessy.

-A.P. Etc