On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:50:16 -0400, RLM wrote:

You can select the end of your hard drive or add a slave hard drive to
install Linux on and keep windows either way. If you choose this choice
defrag windows twice before installing Linux. Allow at least 10 Gb for
Linux just to check out it's operation.


I also prefer the second drive option. Makes it extremely easy for the
newbie to identify which drive is which. Specially when the second drive
is a 40gb while the primary is a 160.

My preference is PCLinuxOS. But like Mandriva it too uses a very simple
to use Control Center for configuring the computer. I always get remarks
from people who never thought they could have so much flexibility in how
their systems looked.