(currently > win 98). start win98 Start >Control Panel> Add/Remove Programs> Create StartUp Disk> Shut down machine put disk in drive A turn on machine go into BIOS and make the floppy the first boot drive save and exit> machine will reboot win98 startup options #1 start computer with CD Rom support you will be good to go in about a minute if it is a slow machine. make sure that you have the drivers for your video, net, sound, handy, just in case you have something that linux doesn't have a basic driver for. the head lemur News: http://www.lemurzone.com/news/ Interviews: http://www.lemurzone.com/pixelview/ Standards: http://webstandards.org Community: http://www.evolt.org