HellzZlave

i have it dling now ty

which do i install GNOME? i only have one 700mb CD-RW on hand that ive been using. lol i could look around for more...

lol US los angelas link if so just fixed nvidia drivers and it still doesnt show the link

like i said i need a link =D the page isnt loading correctly due to insufficient nvidia drivers so i need a link to it when i finally get on mandriva ill look for the drivers then

mandriva Live Disk cd-rw the newest version of mandriva one on there site, if thats the problem ill just get free. but im sure itle do the same thing as OpenSolaris did. the dumb page isnt working properly for me the radiobutton for free wont be check can somone send the link for it http://www.mandriva.com/en/download/free

Nvidia Geforce 5200 256mb tryed on both 1024x768 Res and 800x600 Res (it reset the drivers after the reinstall of windows) 768mb (around there) in RAM 1.6 ghz Pentium 4 processor im not sure what kinda board, i know its a nvidia chipset 40gb harddrive (lol small) is this it, =D

ok so i went and got OpenSolaris 2008.05 burned ISO to disc using alchohol 120%(successfully) and rebooted with disc in drive. it got as far i did with Mandriva in mandriva i did the same up to the Reboot, when it starts loading, with progress bar (it has no caption on it for some reason?) and after the loading bar a console(command prompt like) shows up, and i dont know what to do from there ive seen the tutorials and most of them seem to skip this console and go straight into the setup. i have no idea what i did wrong, and i also need help partitioning the drive. i have Windows Home XP disc and it only partitions to NTFS, i read that FAT filesystem is needed and i dont have any software to do this. can somone gimme a URL to a site to actually get such software, maybe this will fix the console showing up. edit: BTW i only want Linux as main OS not multiboot with windows(sick of windows)