You do need hard disk space to put a partition, say 4 gb for a minimal
experimental partition, to 8 gb for a fairly useful one, to 20 gb for a
full workhorse.  If you don't have any space on the hard drive you
either have to add a hard drive or squeeze XP down with resize.

What I did on my XP system which only had 20 gb hard drive was go into
XP, defrag to make space at the top, then in settings, control panel,
system, virtual memory cut out all the page space to zero.  That's to
get rid of a big page file at the top of memory.  Then I defragged
again, looked at details, and very carefully estimated how much free
space there was at the top.  Then directly get out of XP hopefully
without causing any more files to be allocated.

Boot up Ubuntu CD Live, run Gparted, then on the XP partition, I resized
it down a little less than the free space I thought I had estimated.  If
you resize down too much XP will get ill.  If you resize down just free
space, XP will run O.K. usually.  Then with XP resized down, with the
space freed up, you can make a partition for swap, say a little larger
than your memory 256 mb min, maybe 512 mb, then the rest for Ubuntu.
Has to be at least 2 gb, 4 gb to do any useful work.  Good luck, Jerry

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Xubuntu partitioning can fail because ubiquity does not prevent thunar from 
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