The thing is i have 2 comps and i have just put another 80 gig in my main comp that i use as a acs server and now i have a spare 8 gig hdd . I have been itching to try linux for a while now but dont fancy setting up a dual boot , since i have know knowlege of linux what so ever

so i thought that now i have a spare drive i would set it up in my other comp with linux on it or maybe i could keep my xp pro on the 40 gig that is already installed and have linux on this 8 gig on the slave but i dont really know much about the whole prosess and how it works , all the forums ive read about installing linux have put me of the dual boot idea i have seen somewere that if linux is not installed on the first 9 gig of the drive it will not work so that started to put me right of lol. So then i thought maybe i could just try linux on the 8 gig drive to see what all the fuss is about but if its possible to have it running on a slave hdd with dual boot without alot of messing around then im all for it but as i mentioned before i know pritty much nothing about linux and just as much about dual booting , i dont even know how to start up the installing prosess for linux i mean do i just tell bios to boot from cd rom then im away or do i have to format the drive first then what , anyways ideas would be great . thx ... one last thing i have redhat 8 and suse 8.1 but i liked the sound of suse any recomendations .
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