I would still say that Zipspeak would be the most convenient method of installing on a shared computer. Could you possibly give more details on what you mean by "it won't detect my c drive"? Do you mean that you can't boot into dos? REgards, Saqib ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ameer Armaly" <Ameer_Armaly@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:18 PM Subject: which distro of linux do I use? Hi Guys. Well, I've gotten tired of waiting for the chance for a new pc and decided to put linux on the family computer. I of course plan to make lilo come up with a boot prompt so I can boot windows. I just want to try linux, but I can't get into dos and run zipspeak because it won't ditect my C drive when I try changing dirs to it I think debian, because it can install over ftp, but slackware has an easier install. Which one do you think would be good for a newbee?