Hey everyone! My name is Gina or you can call me G-Dawg (that's my street name lol) As you can probably guess, I am a newbie to not only the list, but to Linux as well, hence why I actually subscribed. I've run into a problem and I'm hoping I can get some help. About me - I've just started in a network class as per an IT degree with a concentration in networks, so in my previous class we did a paper about the different OS and I did one about Windows and Linux. That of course peaked my interest with Linux and finally, as of today, I suddenly needed to try this up and coming OS and so here I am! Now, about my problem - it occured to me today that I didn't want to get rid of XP (which is what I'm running on my desktop), but yet I didn't really want to share my desktop with Linux either, for fear there may be a horrible clash that would happen (and crashing XP twice in one year is an all time high for me; I'd rather not make it three) So I came up with the idea to 'sample' Linux on my old hard drive from my Packard Bell (yeah, I know) However, I have run into problems. I first went with the Suse 10 for Linux and ran into the problem that my network device could not be detected; I got that repeatedly. Now, I want to say it was because I downloaded the internet install at a work computer, burned the image to disk and brought it home. So I have taken the liberty of installing it on my desktop. Have yet to try it, though I think the outcome will be the same. So, frustrated, I stumbled onto ubuntu and saw that not only did it look ridiculously easy (again, I'm a newbie to Linux and I've heard Linux is not user-friendly like Windows), I decided to give it a go. I'm currently downloading the breezy beaver (and really, with a name like that why didn't I try this frist?) I wanted to try something different, but I have a feeilng I will be getting the same error message. As for the specs of my computer, I would like this placed on a second hard drive NOT the master (so basically the slave) The slave is a Fujitsu limited with 1.96GB; I am using an internal NIC which is Belkin 2003; NTFS; nVidia sound card with Hercules drivers....again, I want this to be on the second drive and theoretically, when I boot from the CD, shouldn't it do what Windows does and ask which drive I want it on? My computer is set to boot from the CD, but at least with Suse, it didn't even pick up that I had two hard drives. I really want to try Linux and technically, school was nice enough to give me wonderful copies of XP should I need them, but I really don't want to do that. I don't want to re-partition my master drive, especially when it took a while to get everything back I lost the LAST time XP crashed on me. I even unplugged the master drive and it still said that my network device couldn't be detected and it went into manual installation, which left me confused, as nothing happened and it said the same thing. Okay, so sorry about this very long post, but I truly am hoping to make this work. Any suggestions are appreciated and even though I am a BIT, please take the time if possible to explain this as though I'm a five year old. All the searches I've done for this problem either are too confusing or don't address my problem and there doesn't seem to be a solution. Whew! Well, I hope someone can help. Thanks a lot and hope to hear from everybody on whatever! Gina