When you restart you should be presented with the options of "OpenSolaris", "Windows", etc. By the end of it, you'll remove the CD and restart. Go through the rest of the installation as directed onscreen. Again, always be sure to have backups of all your data and your operating system. Be very careful not to change the NTFS filesystem, or else you could erase Windows. Assuming that you used ext3 as I said, you'll want to click the "Linux Filesystem" partition and change that to OpenSolaris (NOT IF YOU HAVE LINUX INSTALLED ALREADY!). In the options, you will have to choose your partition for OpenSolaris. This will eventually come up to the OpenSolaris liveCD desktop. Restart the computer you've been working on, and load the new CD. Download the OpenSolaris CD from their website, and burn a copy of the iso image. I would recommend giving OpenSolaris a shot. Next is installing your favorite operating system. After GParted runs and completes without errors, you can continue. Be very careful to ensure that you will still have plenty of space in your original partition.
Make this take up most of the free space, and use ext3 file system. Then right-click on the 'free space', and select "New". You'll probably want between 5 and 20GB of new space for OpenSolaris or Ubuntu or whatever you're looking to install. Select the partition containing Windows, probably the largest, and shrink it to a size you think is appropriate. Next GParted's graphical interface will load and you will be able to resize your partition. Wait for everything to load after you select the first option this time (default).
After it completes successfully without errors then you may continue. This will take several minutes (around a half hour). Choose the option to perform a "Memtest86". GParted will require the use of significant RAM, and ensuring that you have good working RAM will make data loss less likely. First, you're going to ensure you have enough RAM to do what you want to do. If you've found yourself in a text screen, then great! We're at GParted. In the settings you will need to make the CD-ROM drive bootable before the Hard Drive. If your computer restarts back to your operating system, you will need to enter the BIOS by pressing F2, F8, or F12 sometime during startup. You'll then insert this CD into your computer, and restart. iso file and burn it onto a CD (here's Infrarecorder, an Open Source CD Burner). Partitioning your hard drive will require the use of the GParted live CD.
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