On WIN XP, you can delete an empty partition from Disk Management. You can then try installing any good distro like Red Hat or Mandrake. SuSE is also very easy to install. You can try that also. Before installing make sure all your hardware is supported, especially the Graphics & Sound cards. If you have an internal(win)modem, check that out too. During the installation all you need is a little understanding of file systems & a lot of common sense. Bhaskar Ghose
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