hmmm, the way to pass the screen saver password is to type in the password then hit enter... other than that, I think I saw a recipe on google to bypass it...

try a search there...

And having linux installed is always good, wether you have win98, or 2000 or even XP, just make sure that you have the partitions set up right, I believe that the linux boot sector needs to be in the first 8 gigs of your hard drive... so partitioning for dual boot can get interesting...

maybe that is no longer valid though.. not sure