Good afternoon everyone,

I have got a retail copy of SuSE 8.1 Pro and am planning to dual boot it off the puter i am useing right now. The 2 manuals it came with are about 900 pages long total and I can see I am in for quite a challenge here. Before I start installing the OS I would like to Throw my Sys Info out to everyone, and hopefully I can be warned ahead of time of any hardware bugs, or basic hang ups I can expect while trying to intergrate linux into my computer. As an example of what im looking for, my friend tried to install 8.1 on his computer and could not get the GUI to work, because of his gefore2 card. I don't know the specifics of his problems, but things like that I would like to avoid in my installation. If not avoid then to atleast have a plan in place to tackle the problem when it arises.

Here are the specs
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1.1 Gig Athlon 256 Ram
4200 Ti Geforce 4 128Ram
Asus A7v333 With on board sound
Sound blaster Live Value Sound card
Generic Network card
Generic DVD Rom Drive
HP 9300 Series CD writer
Running WinXP Home On drive C
Drive D = untouched 40gig HD

I have googled for linux info, and am sorry to say that most of it I dont understand at this time, All i need right now is just help in makeing sure that I get a clean install on the computer so I have a baseline to start learning Linux on.

Thanx