I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 Dual Booting XP and Red Hat 8.0 - installed
like a charm no problems at all.

If you want to use 3D graphics then:

If you've got the 32mb GeForce Go graphics make sure you get the drivers
from NVidia - they're closed-source but make a ton of difference.

If you've got the 64mb ATI Radeon Mobility (as I do) - I would purchase
drivers from XiG at www.xig.com.  They fly on this machine...