Thanks a million for allthat info buddy, i have now downloaded and burnt to CD the "Unbuntu" version of Linux.

I have now had a brilliant idea, which i am going to do tommorrow, after taking the dog for a walk !, to do that i have to get the car out of the garage and then i can get access to a spare PC i have stowed in there, it is the PC my family used before i built one a bit faster, so i reckon this one will be just the jobbie for me to experiment with, and yes,it does have Win XP on it as well, fully working.

maybe when i actually start using Linux some of the filenames and abbreviations you use will become more understandable, LOL.

tim

Sorry mate, anything you didn't understand just say and I'll elaborate.

LOL, i didn't mean you to think it was a problem for me, i see it as more of a challenge !, LOL.

tim

LOL! Fair enough I get a bit ahead of myself now and then though ;-)

Post the results of your 'experiment' 'tis always interesting

definitely buddy

and keep on rocking

tim

so far i havent got on very good,

i backed up the MY documents folder on the 40 gig drive onto 3 DVD's, which took about 3/4 hour to do each !, then i booted up with the UBUNTU CD and by the dozens of error messages that came up on the screen it looked as if it thought the hard drive was about knackered, but considering it had been running Win XP for a few years and i had run XP error checking thingie as well, i had my doubts as to its findings.

Anyway the main reason for this experiment on my Spare computer, is to see how easy it is to install "linux" on a computer already running Win XP.

SO, I then decided to Install a brand new copy of Win XP and Re-Formated it using NTFS, this is what i am doing now, so in a few hours i will report further, and IF i still get these dozens of error messages i will take a dammed photo of them, LOL.

tim