Help! HD partitioning & installation of U

[ppp IT]

Hi folks,

I am not a techie and so unfortunately do not understand the lingo, but have a problem and want to ask for your help:

I have a windows based laptop, just downloaded last version of ubuntu (so far have been using off of the CD) and want to install it in a small partition on hard drive.  

Could some kind soul help me out in what I need to do so that the current files and applications on the hard drive I have are not written over or lost?  I will be using the ubuntu mostly for when I am on connected to the net, so don't want it to take a large fraction of available HD.

Thanks much, 
;^)

Peter

       
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