I'm kinda new to this forum, like 5 minutes ago new.
Anyways, i'm 17 and i am currently attending highschool. For half the day I go to a place called the skill center for computer networking; so i'm not completely computer stupid.
One problem that i am having is i'm trying to partition my hard drive (about 30 gigs) and install linux on maybe a 10 gig partition. How do i do this? I've tried to install free partitioners but i can't seem to get any of them to work. I was wondering what program i could use to partition my hard drive. It doesn't have to be a no brainer program necessarily because like i said, i know enough about computers to get from A to B. Another thing i'd like to do after partitioning is install linux on the partition. What version should i use? I was thinking gentoo? I'm probably just going to use it for instant messenger and downloading music since i hear it takes less cpu to run linux than windows. After i know what version of linux i want i'd like to know a site where i can download it since it's open source. I don't think installing it will be a problem unless there's something tricky i should know about?
I would appreciate any and all help i can get... thanks!
