hello all!
 

i am totally new to this.i was given an old hp pavillion n5430. and it had no os .there was a disk that had gentoo on it. witch i could not get to install im running puppy on it now. i also have an hp touchsmart tm2 2200 that i have 7 on. i am thinking about running a dual os on it ,but not sure what to go with. im looking forward to learn some new things.

Hello and welcome to LQ.

Maybe the Gentoo was one of the live cd's?

I think I'd play with the HP pavillion before you dual boot. May be it's too old for modern linux too.

If you already installed or are running Puppy then you are ahead of the game.

If your newer windows 7 has enough resources then you may also be able to run a free virtual machine. It would act like a computer and run all sorts of linux within Windows 7.

Hello and welcome to the forum :)