which linux should I use

[Saqib Shaikh]

Ok,  Here goes with the info on installing Redhat.

I hope that most of it will be straight forward - just a load of dialog
boxes that ask questions like keyboard, mouse, language, etc.

I would personally reccommend going for a custom install rather than a
workstation because this way you can choose what to install etc - but your
choice.

The main hard bit is when you get to partitioning.  Select to partition
using disk druid.  You'll be shown a list of partitions.  Probably you'll
only have one partition called something like hda1.  In any case this one
partition will be labelled fat32 because it's your windows partition.  When
you've selected your windows partition, tab to edit and press enter.  There
are various fields, the only one to fill in is mount point, which should be
the single letter forward slash (/).  Then press Ok.  You'll be back in the
main disk druid screen, so tab to next and you'll be asked how much space
should be used.  Maybe 500mb for root and 64mb for swap or whatever you
consider to be right.  In any case, what this does is create two files in
your c: drive called something like redhat.img and rh_swap.img or something.
You will also create a boot disk which you can use to run Linux from the
images on your hard disk.

Finally, something I should have said at the beginning: this only works on
fat32 partitions so it won't work if you're using nt/2000/xp on a ntfs
partition.

Hope this helps, Saqib