I wiped the drive.....and installed Ubuntu....

Am I "Bunting" .... is that the term?

So far so good. It won't run the motherboard drivers disc....but did go off on it's own and snag a graphics gard driver from Nvidia (I have a geforce 3). It is also reporting a bad sector on the hard drive....but windows told me that too. We'll see how long it lasts. This is just an experiment for the most part and I can always get a new hard drive if it fails.

I used the default setting for partioning, which only took 1.3 GB for swap, but that is alright. Not a power user and I do have 1 GB of RAM. This is sorta fun playing with this new MS-free computer. Thanks for the help.

There will be questions, but I will start new threads for that....