The first thing to do is a backup of the Rescue and Recovery partition on an external DVD burner.
I tried with a CD burner, but it was not worth the effort... It requires 8 CD, but after CD 4 it started to give me some errors.
With the DVD you need one blank CD (for the boot) and a blank DVD (for the recovery data). It doesn't support a DVD-RAM
To start the procedure you have to enter Vista and open ThinkVantage --> Create Recovery Media, the just follow the prompts.
After that the install of Ubuntu is as simple as popping the install CD in the external CD reader and making an usual install. To not lose the ThinkVantage button functionality (it starts the Rescue and Recovery utilities) it's better to install GRUB on the Linux boot partition and note on the MBR. To access it, you just have to set the Linux partition bootable.
I tried an install with a USB flash, but it's a little bit messy... The USB disk was recognised as sda and the internal disk as sdb. It was funny when GRUB was installed on the USB flash.
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