This will work for a really minimal setup - only 2 partitions...
Use Partition Tragic to shrink you existing FAT(32) partition(s) so you have about 1.5GB available (more would be better, you can manage with about 1GB but its hassle). Now boot from your boot disk, then swap to the root disk when its asks (or boot from the CD and forget the floppies). When you get to the logon prompt logon as
root - there no password set.
Once you are in use
fdisk or
cfdisk to create 2 partitions, the first make about 1.4GB, make the other take up the remaining 100MB.
(Incase you didn't know the way that linux address harddisk take the form of /dev/hda (first hard disk) /dev/hdb (second hard disk) /dev/hda1 (first partition on first hard disk) /dev/hda3 (third partition on first hard disk) etc... So when you use fdisk if you want to work on your first harddisk you run fdisk /dev/hda and when you need to tell setup which partition to use, say it was the third partition on the first hard disk then you would tell it /dev/hda3 - OK??
Now change the type of the smaller partition to 82 (linux swap) then exit back to the command prompt. Now run
setup and follow the instructions on screen. When it asks about LILO, install it to the MBR (master boot record) just make sure that you've got any anti-virus BIOS settings turned off otherwise this'll fail. I'd also suggest that if you have room carry out a full install, there are various options for prompting you about each package but either way if you choose full install it'll still install it all... I tend to choose the
menu setup and then just select the packages I want and leave it to run. There is a more interactive mode where you get a description of each package and a choice to install it from there, but if you're a newbie this'll just waste your time...
Have a look at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Instal...WTO/index.html for a better overall setup guide. Slackware is probably the least friendly distro to setup, but you'll learn a lot of the inner workings of you systems a lot faster. If this isn't what you want then get your hands on something like Mandrake 8 or Redhat 7.1 and install that instead.
HTH
Jamie...