Please help me. I want to install Linux on my Compaq Presario V3070TU Note book. Please suggest me which one should I use. I tried Red Hat Linux 9.0. It can't detect my hard disk. Please help me. Nirmal Jangid

NTFS is not supported you need a FAT32 partition, read the readme's......

If you are new to Linux, you may first prefer to try a 'Live' distribution which can run from the CD, requiring no installation to your HD. If on the other hand, you have decided you want to install Linux to your HD, and learn about it, there are several good distributions available which are 'new-to-Linux-user-friendly'. Ubuntu has an excellent user community, and comes as either the original Ubuntu which includes the Gnome desktop environment, or Kubuntu which includes the KDE desktop environment. Either variation can be downloaded in the form of a Live CD image or in the form of an 'Alternate' installer CD image. You can install the variation of your choice from either medium, (I personally prefer the alternate installer variation). I use Mandriva Linux (which defaults to the KDE desktop environment) here as my primary OS. You can get the three CD install set, or the live CD (Mandriva One) and install to HD from it. I have used Mandriva (Mandrake) since about 1998, and the reason I stick with it is the GUI system management interface MCC ('System' / 'Configuration' / 'Configure Your Computer' in the menu system) from which I can do most of my system configuration and management routines. HTH, Ernie Registered Linux User 247790 ICQ 41060744

"...It can't detect my hard disk..." That's probably because your laptop uses a SATA interface which may not have been supported with an old distro like redhat 9, try a newer version of redhat (eg fedora core 6).