If you have some sort of optical drive, you can config the BIOS to boot from disc, and the nix install CD will allow you to wipe the drive or partition it as you please (this is one of the steps in the installation). Linux can have compatibility issues with hardware, but there are usually drivers out there that you can make work with a little playing around/posting for help on the nix help forums if necessary. As for which installation would be right for you... it depends. First of all, DSL might not be the best distribution for you if you're not an experienced user. Don't get the idea that because your computer is old and having trouble running Windows XP properly that you need to get DSL... there are TONS of linux distributions that take relatively NO SPACE AT ALL, even on old systems. Linux is generally much smaller than Windows. You may be better off playing around with some of the more user-friendly distributions. I haven't actually used DSL before, but, I'm assuming that after locating one of the mirrors (such as ftp://ftp.oss.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/), you would want a current version (go to the current dir), then current.iso would probably be the correct installation. You'd DL that, burn the image to a disk, set your computer to boot from disk, put the disk in, reboot, and go through the installation process.
Post edited at 11:10 pm on June 28, 2008 by matto
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