Quad pentium dual boot

[Prabhu Raghavan <prabhura caip rutgers edu>]

I got a quad pentium xeon machine which has to be configured to be a dual
boot with linux and windows nt. Can somebody send me some pointers to do
this sanely? 

Another thing is that I have data (about 20G worth!) that has to be
accesible to both Linux and NT. I don't know if I can access the Linux
filesystem from NT, so I guess it'll have to sit on NT and possibly as a
FAT16 filesystem. Any comments?

thanks in advance,
-prabhu
ps: I'm just starting to get familiar with linux.